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  "thread": {
    "id": 288,
    "subject": "Mother, brother and sister",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-01-06T18:55:29+00:00",
    "last": "1998-01-06T18:55:29+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0006-0428@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Terence Nickolette",
        "address": "terrynick at centuryinter.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-01-06T18:55:29+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Mother, brother and sister",
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          "text": "Christopher has posed an interesting question.  But would you kind readers\nhelp me to understand the logic (or guesses) that lead to the conclusion\nthat Katherine is Severian's mother and Merryn his sister?  \n\nIn \"The Feast\" of Shadow, Severian describes Katherine (and the maid who\nplays her) as tall and slender, dark of complexion and hair. And he says\n\"hers was such a face as I have never seen elsewhere, like a pool of pure\nwater found in the midst of a wood.\"  He is tall, with dark hair, and with\nvery fair skin.  A pool of pure water found in a wood would reflect the face\nof one who looked at it. GW seems to be telling us that Severian looks like\nKatherine.\n\nBut we are also told that the annual observance of Holy Katherine's feast\nhas been going on for 300 years.  \"No one from without the guild has dined\nwith us at the annual observance of Holy Katherine's feast for more than 300\nyears, when a lieutenant of the guard (so it is said) dared to come for a\nwager.\"  It would seem logical that such an important ceremony would have a\nlong history.  If it has been observed for over 300 years, how can Katherine\nbe Severian's mother?\n\nAs far as Merryn being his sister, please help me....."
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