From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Voyage of the Whorl: Assumptions
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:23:56 


--- Talarican <exultnttalarican@mindspring.com> wrote:
...
> (*1) The death of Ymar, a contemporary of the end of Typhon's reign, is
> supposed to have been about a chiliad prior to Severian's time, per
> Mantis,
> in LU A&E #2, based on a remark made in an article in _Thrust_,
> regarding
> the assassin Sev found in the Second House. It follows that Typhon
> probably
> launched the _Whorl_ roughly a century or so earlier, before the Old Sun
> dimmed and the Conciliator appeared.

This stuff is all very interesting!

I suppose I'm unlikely to look up the references, but what's _Thrust_ and
who made the remark?

As for the century earlier, I don't follow that.  Typhon had two heads
when the _Whorl_ was launched, and he still did when he "retired to his
blameless couch".  Could he have been in that unpleasant state for a
century?  Or are you suggesting that Typhon has performed the same
maneuver more than once?
...

Jerry Friedman

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