Urth-Earth links

Gerry Quinn · 17 Oct 2011, 14:27 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:27:38 +0100
Subject: (urth) Urth-Earth links
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From: Gerry Quinn 
> As for the mermaid?s kiss, the fact remains that Baldanders doesn?t need it.  
> How the kiss would have worked, I don?t know ? perhaps Juturna?s saliva 
> contains nanomachines that would have restructured Severian?s body for 
> underwater living, or perhaps Wolfe would have been content to leave the
>  matter unexplained.   But Baldanders already has his gills, hidden in plain
>  sight by Wolfe as he likes to do.

And (I should have noted) Juturna has no antigravity belt, and she could certainly have benefited from one.  Nor, if I recall correctly, does Severian mention any gills, though I suppose it may be that his eyes were drawn elsewhere.  The technologies, magicks or whatever are different. 

- Gerry Quinn
 
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