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From: "Joe Eull"Subject: (urth) great green mankiller Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:05:10 -0500 > "a huge friend with dripping jaws that spoke to me" (if I have it right > after looking it up last night)--not so scary. It's right after Severian > meets Triskele. > > Where's the green mankiller? (If looking it up is any trouble, don't > bother. I can take the trouble myself.) > > -- > Jerry Friedman > The great mankiller, who happens to be tusked and green, is mentioned by he narrator in IGJ, Ch 22, pg 330 of the pb edition. Here's what he writes: "A great man-killer stalks there two-legged like a man , green and quiet, with fangs longer and thicker than a strong man's arm - but only for me and only when I do not look for it." This is in the marsh the Narrator and Hide encounter outside of Blanko. Joe --