Severian's Sexuality

brunians at brunians.org · 07 Jun 2008, 05:08 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 01:08:57 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) Severian's Sexuality
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>       Jolenta's real hair color (hidden by Wolfe earlier) is pale gold,
> like her grandmother, Dorcas, and that her real name might be Severa.  The
> sexual congress between Severian and Dorcas, Dorcas and Jolenta, Agia and
> Agilus (his cousins I think), and Severian and Cyriaca (his aunt I
think) is
> what leads me to think of this as an Oedipally cursed family.

Jolenta is his sister? Cyriaca is his aunt? Agia and Agilus are his cousins?

Is there any evidence for any of this in the book?


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