Typhon's nature

David Stockhoff · 20 Oct 2011, 19:29 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:29:07 -0400
Subject: (urth) Typhon's nature
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On 10/20/2011 3:14 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote:
>
>> Andrew, do you have evidence for the monarch's repentance? Is it
>> possible that Typhon brought all remaining books to Nessus to save them,
>> where a predecessor burned them?
> 'But on the night before the burning was to begin, the autarch of the
> time, who had never dreamed before the wild dreams of sleep but only
> waking dreams of dominion, dreamed at last.... When morning came, he
> ordered that the torches not be kindled, but that there should be a
> great vault  built to house all the volumes and scrolls the
> white-robed men had gathered.' (SOTL 6.)

Thanks. I had forgotten that completely. The "dreams of dominion" sounds 
like Typhon, as well as not dreaming at all.

So the monarch who gathered the books is also the monarch who planned to 
burn them and did not. Typhon is both.

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