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"J. Schultz" speculates:
Does Severian have a sexual relationship with Little Severian?
I know it sounds crazy, but on two occasions when Severian remembers L'il Sev he is thinking about pedophillia.
Brain wandering here ....
Doesn't Severian often describe Dorcas's "childlike beauty?" "Dorcas" sounds kind of like "Dolores", Lolita's true name. And "Dolores" in turn suggests pain ... a torturer? Hum, and Humbert Humbert claims (falsely) to have a photographic memory; an unreliable and biased narrator.
Okay, I'll shut up now.
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