# Dorcas with child *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 Apr 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Roy C. Lackey *09 Apr 1999, 00:43* >> On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:06:20 Robert Borski wrote: >> Anybody willing to buy that this may also be symptomatic of morning >> sickness? Severian and Dorcas have been having sex long enough for her to >> be entering this stage of pregnancy, and it's interesting to note that nine >> or so months later, when Severian sees Dorcas for the last time in Oldgate, >> "on the floor near her was a basket, not small yet not large either." Could >> this basket perhaps contain a baby?<< Damn! I just reread the series, noted and wondered about the basket (seemingly irrelevant to what was going on; she wasn't on a picnic), then forgot it. I think you're right. The idea of morning sickness had also occured to me when I read the vomiting scenes. I should have put them together! Roy ---