Dionysus, Mausoleum

Forgot to address this. Often, in legends and life, familial hate is the deepest kind. I used to find Typhon completely loathesome also. I think James' association of him to Alexander (and Spring Wind) has expanded my vistas on him recently. We can understand Severian hating Typhon. He threatened his life and would enslave The Conciliator. But if Typhon is like Alexander perhaps he has some admirable traits as did Alexander/Spring Wind in younger years. Typhon wants to elevate and unite humanity. He wants to vanquish the demonic beings in the oceans. He wants to make Severian his second-in-command. His beating of Severian wasn't really life-threatening, just an echo of Severian's beating of Eata. Typhon may be a sexually perverted megalomaniac but perhaps he isn't all bad? FWIW, I think Severian was deliberately set upon a path to resurrect Dorcas, resurrect Typhon, defeat Baldanders, etc. But more than once force is manipulating the outcomes of these events. The more powerful one is working toward the New Sun and succeeds. But the purpose of the less powerful, Urthly, force is there to be detected also.

Lee, just wanted to point out that in the snipets I quoted below, as far as New Sun is concerned, it is very hard to look beneath to see anything beneficial or benevolent in Typhon's?motives because of the very clear Satan tempting Jesus in the desert imagery. Kneel before me, and all that you see will be yours. That scene is almost directly ripped from the bible in what Typhon says and what he offers Severian, so to say he doesn't seem all bad can only come from Long Sun. The Satanic reference is so heavy handed its almost plagiarism throwing in two heads and an elevator car. In addition, this is the scene in the bible where Satan directly tries to stop Jesus from the ministry that will culminate in earthly salvation, the most direct attack of his sinister temptations to be seen probably anywhere. The clear parallel is that if Sev failed here, he fails forever. marc --- On Tue, 12/21/10, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote: Forgot to address this. Often, in legends and life, familial hate is the deepest kind. I used to find Typhon completely loathesome also. I think James' association of him to Alexander (and Spring Wind) has expanded my vistas on him recently. ... Typhon wants to elevate and unite humanity. He wants to vanquish the demonic beings in the oceans. He wants to make Severian his second-in-command. His beating of Severian wasn't really life-threatening, just an echo of Severian's beating of Eata. Typhon may be a sexually perverted megalomaniac but perhaps he isn't all bad? .... “The more powerful one is working toward the New Sun and succeeds. But the purpose of the less powerful, Urthly, force is there to be detected also. ?”?????????????????????????

I don't really have a point to this; I simply like the quote and think it germane:

--Bosola, in response to Ferdinand. Act 4, Sc. 2; _The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy_*, John Webster * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duchess_of_Malfi