the maids of contessa

Dave Tallman · 27 Jun 2008, 13:04 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:04:59 -0600
Subject: (urth) the maids of contessa
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We can also look with fresh eyes at the lines in the play that predict 
the Contessa's fate:

Contessa: If my body held a part of yours -- drops of liquescent tissue 
locked in my loins...

Meschia: If it did, you might wander Urth for a time longer, a lost 
thing that could never find its way home. But I will not bed you. Do you 
think you are more than a corpse? You are less.

In other words, if the Contessa (Catherine) becomes pregnant with the 
seed of the New Sun, her life will be prolonged but she will never be 
able to return to her home (her own time).

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