Were Jolenta and Dorcas lovers?

David DiGiacomo · 31 Oct 2006, 03:42 · from 2006-October.txt.gz

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From: david at slack.com (David DiGiacomo)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:42:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Were Jolenta and Dorcas lovers?
Message-ID: <10610310342.AA10601 at slack.com>

I like your theories!  Another one is that this passage is telling us that
Talos's surgical skill made Jolenta irresistably attractive to everyone,
even Severian's dead grandmother.

Or, Severian may just be trying to convince us of that, to justify his rape
(?) of Jolenta.

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