Typhon's nature

Gerry Quinn · 15 Oct 2011, 09:58 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:58:45 +0100
Subject: (urth) Typhon's nature
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From: Andrew Mason 

> 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.

Where does it say that?
- Gerry Quinn
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