Two tombs

don doggett · 04 Jul 2006, 18:27 · from 2006-July.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 11:27:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Two tombs
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--- thalassocrat at nym.hush.com wrote:

> 
> I've tried to make up stories about who the other
> coffins in Sev's 
> tomb might belong to, but I can't find anything to
> go on. And why 
> *two* open? 
> 
> Ideas, anyone? 

One is Severian's analog (Ymar, imo) or Sev himself,
the other his twin sister (probably Merryn, possibly
Valeria) though I feel strongly that the sex of Sev's
twin is variable. There's a lot of gender ambiguity in
Wolfe's work, it seems to me, beginning with 5HC.

Don

p.s. I've finished Soldier of Sidon, and I couldn't be
more pleased. If anyone else has read it, feel free to
write me offlist. Otherwise, I eagerly await the
October discussions.

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