Pike's ghost

Gerry Quinn · 28 Nov 2011, 03:15 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:15:27 -0000
Subject: (urth) Pike's ghost
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From: Larry Miller 

> Cilinia has a saints name because she is biologically human as her
> father is likely Piaton or the Blonde haired man.  His fate is tied
> with this blonde haired man because this is the "face" that the people
> acknowledge as Monarch.  
Typhon wanted a son.  If he were a space monster, surely he would hardly have cared about the son of some random Urthling? 
> Mainframe possession is technological your
> right but whose to say that Typhons race didnt possess the means to
> inhabit others.  Is Mucors possession technological? No its not so
> there you go.  As far as other bodies go I do believe we hear about at
> least one- the mandragora which again I believe is the Prime Calcula
> mentioned by Echidna when Silk asks "Did Pas ever possess anyone who
> died?" in Exodus
The mandragora?  Do you mean the homunculus in a jar Severian found, probably thousands ? and certainly hundreds ? of years after Typhon?  I don?t see what that has to do with him.
?The prime calcula... His citadel? is surely the Prime Calculator, a component of Mainframe, a sort of primary ALU.  Echidna is losing control of Marble when she blurts out these sentence fragments. 
- Gerry Quinn
 
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