Pike's ghost

Larry Miller · 28 Nov 2011, 04:04 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: decanus1284 at gmail.com (Larry Miller)
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:04:53 -0500
Subject: (urth) Pike's ghost
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No I think that his mind or whatever you want to call it laid dormant
all those years between the Conciliator until his resurrection.  The
reason he didnt reappear is because Severian killed that body before
his mind could be transferred into another.  I dont think Typhons
abilities work in the same way as Mucors where he can jump from body
to body at will.  There has to be some kind of procedure/operation
involved.  Unfortunately for him Typhon was stuck in the body that
Severian killed.

On 11/27/11, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Ant?nio Pedro Marques
>> No dia 28/11/2011, ?s 01:57, Larry Miller <decanus1284 at gmail.com>
>> escreveu:
>
>> > His fate is tied
> v> with this blonde haired man because this is the "face" that the people
>> > acknowledge as Monarch.
>
>> Possibly his fate as Monarch, but his fate as a living entity? He does
>> seem to be
>> dead/sleeping from the Concilliator's time to Severian's, and he does seem
>> to die
>> by Severian's hand. Do you hold that he may have been/be somewhere far
>> away,
>> unable to act on Urth while/when the blond head is asleep/dead/killed?
>> Unable or
>>  unwilling to possess someone else?
> That is a good point.  And when Severian woke him he was all gung-ho to take
> over Urth again, yet fifty years later he had not reappeared after being
> killed.  I think Severian got the right guy...
> - Gerry Quinn

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