# Severian's Emotions

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 06 Apr 1998*

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### Terence Nickolette
*06 Apr 1998, 07:31*

> On Thecla and the alzabo: It seems to me rather clear that since
> everything that comes in contact with Severian is brought back to life,
> Thecla comes back to life and live within him. Some of Severian's memories
> seem more likely to be Thecla's. I think of his comment after visiting the
> whorehouse that he never went there again because it was painful. Men don't
> experience pain in their initiation into sex, but women do, of course. I'll
> bet that was Thecla's memory.<

From a practical, perhaps male, point of view, Severian didn't need to
return to the whorehouse.  He had his trysts with Thecla in her cell.  It
was painful because he didn't like the 

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