Father Inire as Dionysus

Sergei SOLOVIEV · 24 Oct 2011, 18:13 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei SOLOVIEV)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:13:46 +0200
Subject: (urth) Father Inire as Dionysus
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Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote (24-10-2011 18:25):
>> On 10/24/2011 1:16 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>>> I believe it is the Old Autarch who tells Severian that Thecla was 
>>> chosen
>>> for her loyalty to Vodalus as a means to bind his followers more 
>>> tightly
>>> to him. I tend to think Vodalus as an expendable pawn of higher powers
>>> (easily replaced by Agia with the help of...Hethor) who doesn't 
>>> really know
>>> that the true importance of his dinner choices (and all else that he 
>>> does)
>>> relates to Severian as a nascent New Sun
>>
>> Here's a thought.
>>
>> Old Autarch + Inire vs Vodalus + Inire
>>
>> New Autarch + Inire vs Agia and Hethor
>>
>> (1) The Vodalarii no longer need Inire's personal attention now that 
>> Sev is
>> here
>>
>> (2) Hethor is a lesser Inire, as Agia is a lesser Vodalus.
>
> Why isn't Hethor the same individual as Inire?
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If he is the same, why waste all these efforts making his biography
as a "sailor" (on spaceships)? Invent all his small hates, sadism etc?
Make him very human in this?  Would Wolfe waste his time as an author?

By the way, no human emotions are attributed to any of the explicitly
alien personages in BoTNS. Would not making this in case of Hethor break
the rule (IF he is Inire, who is an alien).

This is an example of
what I call conceptual inconsistency of many theories I see at this list.

Sergei

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