Sev as pedophile? Bah, Humbert!

Charles Dye · 23 May 1998, 12:57 · from urth-v0011.mbox · original

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From: raster at highfiber.com (Charles Dye)
Subject: (urth) Sev as pedophile?  Bah, Humbert!
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 12:57:17
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>"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" soun=
ds
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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