Quetzal, Typhon, and cross-links

Doug Eigsti · 20 Jan 1997, 10:43 · from whorl-v0001.mbox · original

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From: douge at nti.com (Doug Eigsti)
Subject: Re: (whorl) Quetzal, Typhon, and cross-links
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:43:43
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[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

> =20
> > From: revjack at radix.net (revjack at radix.net)
> > Did I read this correctly? Pas is none other that that two-headed
> body-stealing
> > world-conquring pan-egotist Typhon from the Books of the New Sun? The
> > starcrosser "Whorl" was launched in Severian's era? I'm amazed that I
> didn't see
> >=20
> > that before.
>=20
> I think we first learn this in Nightside.  There is a reference to
> "two-headed Pas," and then later when we get a description of the
> "blasphemous" backdrop in the disused manteion in Orchid's, we get a
> description of Pas that is exactly that of Typhon.  Finally, in the
> Dramatis Personae in Exodus, Pas's entry says "the stored personality of
> a tyrant."  There are, of course, many other clues between.  Kypris's
> theophany in (I think) Exodus is particularly revealing.

Dave Lebling and RevJack;

	I would like to add that Scyla, in possession of Chenile, spills=20
it in LAKE, page 275.3. In the passage she is updating Silk on the=20
origins on the gods, mentioning that Daddy was Typhon.

=3DDoug Eigsti=3D
douge at nti.com




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