Father Inire as Dionysus

Gerry Quinn · 24 Oct 2011, 12:40 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:40:30 +0100
Subject: (urth) Father Inire as Dionysus
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From: Lee Berman 

> Other clues are the aforementioned image of her face in that of 
> Ultan's. Also, it would seem that Vodalus and his crew are not 
> risking their lives and wasting precious alzabo to have their 
> ceremony for eating just anyone.  Thecla was important.  But 
> perhaps not as important as eating the mother of the 
> Conciliator/New Sun (which Vodalus may or may not know about. 
> But  SOMEBODY in power knows about it).      
They?re not so fussy.  It looks like they?ll eat anyone, at a pinch, even if some of them have preferences:
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"Going far this time? Going to drown yourself again?" (This from the man at the back of our party, a mere disembodied voice in the dark.)

"By Erebus, I'm going to sink so far you won't see me until winter."

A voice I recognized as belonging to the armiger asked, "Have  any of you seen her yet?" The others had sounded merely boastful, but there was hunger of a kind I had never heard before behind his simple words. He might have been some lost traveler asking about his home.

"No, Waldgrave."

(Another voice.) "Alcmund says a good one, not old or too young."

"Not another tribade, I hope."

"I don't . . ."
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One might consider it as paralleling Severian?s sexual encounters with a wide spectrum of Commonwealth society, and later his absorption of the minds of previous Autarchs.  The diabolical communion of the Vodalarii is still, indeed, a sort of communion.  Evil is good perverted.

- Gerry Quinn

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