Daddy Typhon?

James Jordan · 15 Jul 2002, 21:29 · from urth-v0207.mbox · original

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From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at cox.net>
Subject: (urth) Daddy Typhon?
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:29:35 -0500
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At 11:43 AM 7/15/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Nutria wrote:
> >Pas is not yet dead when Silk sees his dead biological parents in the
> >Outsider's "Mainframe," so he cannot be Silk's father.
>
>Ah, but we are talking =3Dbiological=3D life here, not VR life in Mainfram=
e.
>And I'm sure you will agree that Typhon, the biological pre-form of Pas, is
>long dead by the time of Silk; as is Typhon's extramarital girlfriend.

         I meant Typhon, not Pas. Sorry.
         But, no, I won't agree. You certainly remember more details than I=20
do, so help me out. Sure, Typhon's original body is gone, but his soul is=20
alive, if asleep, waiting to be awakened by Severian and finally slain. So=20
he ain't dead.
         Or have we decided that when Silkhorn goes to Urth to visit=20
Severian he goes back in time? In that case Typhon would be dead. But it's=20
hard to imagine Wolfe has him in the same Outsider heaven as Silk's=20
"adoptive" parents. Typhon does not seem like the "loving" type that Silk=20
sees during his period of death.
         Still, Typhon is not dead, not for another 20-30 years, from what=20
I can tell.
         Help me out here.

Nutria



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