# The Palindromes, Ma & Pa

*The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 13 Oct 1998*

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### Robert Borski
*13 Oct 1998, 01:43*

This is the last of the major genealogical timeloop inversions of New Sun.

Father Inire's name derives from Latin and means "to begin, to enter." Like
many of the other incestuously involved couples of Urth (Agia, Agilus; Sev,
Dorcas;Sev, Valeria), he too is sleeping with a blood relative--his sister,
the Cumaean.

And who are their parents? (Tony Ellis came very close to figuring this
out). 

They're Severian and Apheta (whose name means "starting place").

Now somebody dare tell me Gene Wolfe does not have one wicked sense of
humor!

Robert Borski  

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### William H. Ansley
*13 Oct 1998, 23:49 · follows Robert Borski*

> Now somebody dare tell me Gene Wolfe does not have one wicked sense of
> humor!
> 
> Robert Borski

Well, *somebody* has a wicked sense of humor, anyway.

William Ansley

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