his own father

Jeff Wilson · 15 Dec 2007, 09:32 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:32:46 -0600
Subject: (urth) his own father
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Ashley Crill wrote:
>> > 2) Is the Cumaean the heavenly same being that Sev sleeps with in the> fifth volume, while on Yesod? (By the way, has it come up in the> discussions that Yesod means "foundation" in Hebrew?) I seem to> remember from my last reading of Urth of the NS that Severian implies> that he fathers himself in that encounter.
> 
> During that encounter, Severian gave birth to the New Sun, which was himself. Hopefully that clears it up. =)

Ouch! I presume he glossed over the necessary C-section?

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