Conditional Concession to Lee

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 11 Sep 2014, 15:20 · from 2014-September.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:20:01 -0500
Subject: (urth) Conditional Concession to Lee
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On 9/9/2014 1:49 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> Rudesind at one point says that he was "supposed" to tell Severian
> something but then messes it up. I don't mind the ape associations with
> Inire at all (how else to describe all those apes just hanging around in
> weird places?), but geez associating other characters with Inire always
> rubbed me the wrong way ... even if they were described as ape-like

Remember Tzadkiel's story that the original exalted human race built his 
from animals, so an association with animals and beastmen and apes as 
the most humanlike of animals is not inappropriate for Yesodis.

The watcher-apes seen by Sev I still think may be aquastors, but there 
needs to be a reason both for their presence and for their lack of 
omnipresence. Perhaps they are animal characters originally meant for 
younger children's education but repurposed to guide or monitor 
Severian's progress. We know Wolfe uses the theme of mechanical toys 
taken into adult contexts in several short stories....

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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