mysteries of the long sun?

James Wynn · 28 Oct 2011, 19:28 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:28:47 -0500
Subject: (urth) mysteries of the long sun?
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On 10/28/2011 12:52 PM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
> His injury by the vulture is also one of the reasons he is able to 
> become close with Crane; his hurt ankle serves as a pretext for Crane 
> to give him the wrapping, etc.  So the vulture serves an importance 
> narrative purpose as well.  Also, Wolfe seems to have a thing with 
> lame protagonists.  Weer, Severian, Silk ... not sure why that is.

His leg injury  occurs when he falls out of the window because Hyacinth 
is taunting him with her azoth. He only gets a cut from the gyrevulture.

The Silk leg injury another example of Silk and Auk acting out the life 
of Hephaestus. Hephaestus was alternately tossed off Mt Olympus by Zeus 
(lighting bolt) and Hera (make of it what you will), and injured his 
leg. There's the prophesy in Genesis in which the serpent bites the heel 
of the "enmity" which in turn crushes his head. Also, Jason and 
Cinderella had only one shoe and Oedipus had a club foot.

J.

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