Subject: (urth) Sev as pedophile? Bah, Humbert!

From: Charles Dye <raster at highfiber.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 12:57:17 +0000

>"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.

raster at highfiber.com

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