Severian's skin colour

Tony Ellis · 18 Jun 2005, 05:21 · from 2005-June.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Sat Jun 18 05:21:18 2005
Subject: (urth) RE: Severian's skin colour
In-Reply-To: <20050618005824.2380084DBD at che.dreamhost.com>
Message-ID: <000001c57400$31897080$6401a8c0@TONYSPC>

Severian is white:

"I've never seen such white skin coupled with dark hair... Do you think
my own skin white?"
"Very white, Chatelaine."
"So do others, but it is dun next to yours. You must flee the sun when
you're a torturer, Severian. You'll burn terribly."
TSOTT, chapter X.

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