Father Inire-Hethor

Jeff Wilson · 20 Oct 2011, 23:28 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:28:55 -0500
Subject: (urth) Father Inire-Hethor
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On Thu, October 20, 2011 15:58, Lee Berman wrote:
> Urg. Nah, none of that stuff ;-). As my recent post suggests, the best
> explanation
> for the dead Dorcas' husband is that he is merely one iteration of a being
> who can
> make copies of himself (perhaps an iteration who lost immortality by
> falling in love)

I don't think he has immortality to lose; he is conspicuously absent after
Sev's departure to Yesod.

> Consider the flowery, grandiose language used by Inire in the letter
> Rudesind brings
> to Severian. Does it remind you of another character's writing and speech?
> Hint:
> someone who seems to know a great deal about the past and future history
> of Urth and
> has rather miraculous powers of persuasion and anatomical transformation.
> A character
> who does not possess a saint name but, like Inire, one from Greco-Roman
> mythology.

Juturna?

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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