Severian's skin colour

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 18 Jun 2005, 09:51 · from 2005-June.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Sat Jun 18 09:51:18 2005
Subject: (urth) RE: Severian's skin colour
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Yaaaay! Textual evidence! Hallelujah!

And, incidentally, this adds credence to the theory that 
Sev is at  least an optimate and possibly an exultant by 
birth...

--Dan'l

On 6/18/05, Tony Ellis <tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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