# When did you last see your mother? *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 13 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. --- ### Jonathan Laidlow *13 Apr 1999, 14:27* Re: Severian as father of his own mother. I'm in agreement with the suggestion that Dorcas is pregnant. but where is the evidence in the text to suggest that this is in fact Katherine, Severian's mother? Are we saying that Severian is the result of an incestuous relationship (Dorcas' first child Ouen & second child by Severian)? And how does this interbreeding produce the saviour? Surely the results would be much less favourable.... Jonathan Visit Ultan's Library - A Gene Wolfe web resource http://members.tripod.co.uk/laidlow/index.htm Jonathan Laidlow University of Birmingham, UK ---