Pike's Ghost

David Stockhoff · 28 Nov 2011, 19:36 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:36:53 -0500
Subject: (urth) Pike's Ghost
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On 11/28/2011 2:23 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> Severian is shocked beyond belief that Typhon would choose to have his own head chopped
> off as most of us would be. But Typhon just laughs it off casually demonstrating a lack
> of human body self-identification and preservation that we all share. Moreover Typhon
> says he was not born, in the way Severian understands it. The evidence seems pretty
> clear that the blond-haired body in which Typhon resides is not his original self.

Certainly Typhon is uncannily careless of his *body*. But recall your 
own theory that what many characters in TBOTNS desire is immortality. 
His body is now just in the way, whether it is his original one or not.

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