Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 13:22:19 -0700
From: Don Palumbo 
Subject: Re: (urth) Duh! Part 2.


Just dipping in for a moment, but Typhon and Baldanders are the same
person thematically,

as Crush suggests, in that they are both the two clearest representatives
of the Ogre-Tyrant of the status quo that it is the task of the hero as
warrior to overthrow.  This comes from Campbell's THE HERO WITH A
THOUSAND FACES, of course, and The Book of the New Sun overall (and
echoed in Urth of the New Sun) is clearly Wolfe's treatment of
Campbell's monomyth, the adventure of the hero, just as the Book of the
Log Sun in itself is his treatment of the generational star ship
story.



--Don



At 10:19 PM 9/6/03 -0500, James Wynn wrote:

Teflon and Blattid agree:

> >Interesting question.  I tend to think Typhon and
Baldanders (rather than

> >Abaia, who is unseen).

>

> That is my belief, too.







oookay. This will surely be good. While both T. and B. are cast from
their

towers by Severian, how oh how are they the same person? Or do you mean
only

thematically?



I'm still working my way thru the Short Sun; is there any explanation
of

what happened to Typhon's kids? Skylla presumably became the famous
monster

tyrant of Urth. If Tartaros has a identity on Urth it is surely Erebus.
What

happened to Hieros?



 -- Crush.







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