Gnostic Wolfe

Adam Stephanides · 06 Nov 2002, 02:41 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Gnostic Wolfe
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 20:41:05 -0600
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on 11/4/02 7:50 PM, Alice K. Turner at aturner6 at nyc.rr.com wrote:

> (and I don't know why
> some of you are making a Typhon/Pas split--Wolfe doesn't in his interview=
s).

Whether or not he makes it in his interviews, it is clearly present in the
books.  Typhon is the ruler of Urth who built the Whorl; Pas is a copy of
Typhon's personality that was downloaded into a computer.  One could say
that Pas is Typhon in the sense that Silk-in-Mainframe is Silk; but the
entity that ordered the Whorl to be built was killed by Severian on Urth.

--Adam

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