# Sev as pedophile? Bah, Humbert! *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 23 May 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Charles Dye *23 May 1998, 12:57* > "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 ---