Typhon's Confidence (plus some other questions)

Jonathan Goodwin · 28 Jan 2014, 01:12 · from 2014-January.txt.gz

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From: joncgoodwin at gmail.com (Jonathan Goodwin)
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:12:03 -0600
Subject: (urth) Typhon's Confidence (plus some other questions)
Message-ID: <CALipicQHUYzqA_f48vMm7-WaDWN-hsB06=3BTODHGQ29T3wDtw at mail.gmail.com>

Recently re-read the Book of the New Sun, and I was wondering about this
detail: Typhon, after being awake for a while and having a look around
(with his sensors I presume), tells Severian that there are powers in the
sea who would rule now. But, he clarifies, we will rout their armies.

How can Typhon be so cavalier about the presence of telepathic monsters in
the sea? If his technology is still so much greater, why hasn't one of the
Autarchs found and used it? Is it bluster on Typhon's part, or he does he
have some prior knowledge of the monsters? Was he the power who had the
woman with the black beans ripped to pieces (and they grew, slowly, into
Abaia, etc.?)

Also, why does Jonas know so much about Erebus, etc.?

I once, long ago, conjectured that Severian was lying about the whole
event, as I could never quite accept the breaking of Piaton's nose. If
Typhon is a telepath himself (or has mind-control technology). . .
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