Dorcas with child
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 Apr 1999
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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

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