Gene Wolfe's New Sun stuff

Michael Bowman · 04 Oct 1992, 23:39 · from sf-lovers.1992.mbox

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From: mbowman at andromeda.rutgers.edu (Michael Bowman)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe's New Sun stuff
Date: 4 Oct 92 23:39:41 GMT
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Regarding Dorcas and the waiter:

John Clute (in _Strokes_, a collection of reviews and essays) contends that
Dorcas is Severian's GRANDmother, not his mother.  He thinks that the
waiter is her son (and hence Severian's father) and that the old man is her
husband (and Severian's grandfather).  His question was: who is Severian's
mother?  His answer is that it was the Autarch.

Michael Bowman

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