The Beast from Severian's dream

Lee · 01 Aug 2014, 21:24 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:24:18 -0400
Subject: (urth) FW: The Beast from Severian's dream
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> From: severiansola at hotmail.com
> To: urth at urth.net
> Subject: The Beast from Severian's dream
> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:18:36 -0400
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>>Marco Badie: I bestrode
>>a great, leather-winged being under a lowering sky. Just equipoised between the
>>rack of cloud and a twilit land we slid down a hill of air. Hardly once, it
>>seemed to me, the finger-winged soarer flapped her long pinions.
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> I would want to note that Severian also dreams of undines and later encounters a
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> real one. He also encounters such pterodon creatures that he rides in his dream in
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> his encounter with Hethor and Agia as they take him from the battlefield.
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>>The corridors of time, of course!
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> Absolutely! Wolfe meant us to understand these corridors from such passages in the
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> first four books of BotNS, but mostly we didn't. So he had to explain it better and
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> and clearer in Urth Of The New Sun.
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> What I want to ask is how Hethor, who brings the pterodons, might be related to the
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> corridors of time?
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> He, like Father Inire, is a mirror master who can summon strange creatures. He, like
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> Father Inire is of alien origin. He, like Father Inire, is a twisted little guy....
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> From his mumblings, we can determine that Hethor was a crewman who rose to First Mate
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> status on a certain ship but was expelled for mutiny.
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> On Tzadkiel's ship, we find a group of mutineers named "jibers" and someone who looks
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> like Hethor is found among them.
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> Tzadkiel is a archangel. Would an expelled mutineer who found himself on Urth be
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> considered as a "fallen angel"?
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> Famulimus and Barbatus are aliens but are highly likened to angels who visit Urth
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> but do not reside there.
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> What status might this give Father Inire and The Cumaean who are aliens but do
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> reside on Urth?

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