Typhon's nature

Andrew Mason · 14 Oct 2011, 18:43 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:43:26 +0100
Subject: (urth) Typhon's nature
Message-ID: <CAM3O41+tRe64fWf5wcvMucPuWSPX64p4JdHAGshntVvcNsMOFA at mail.gmail.com>

Gerry Quinn wrote: >
>
> From: Lee Berman
>
>> Some think the monarch who planned to destroy all human
>> books/knowledge was Typhon but I dunno.
>
> Nothing Typhon does or says indicates that he would contemplate such an act.
>

The monarch repented, and everything we see of Typhon, both on Urth
and on the Whorl, would have come after that repentance. I think it's
clear that this monarch is Typhon, since in _Urth_ there is a specific
reference to him as having brought the books to to the Citadel.

It remains true, though, that the machine-run society seems to belong
to a much earlier period, the First Empire. Such machines, Malrubius
tells us, still exist, but they are clearly not commonplace.

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