Last night I dreamed that I had convincingly shown that Severian was Baldanders' father. I had a very clever note I had written about it.
Further, Frog and Fish were to be understood as Baldanders and Talos. This was in the midst of an otherwise Portal-influenced dream that was taking place in a space rather like an airport (architecturally).
Unfortunately, just what evidence I had to support this hypothesis--which, I reiterate, was convincing--has evaporated with the dream.
Adam