"Myfather's mountedguard"þ

Roy C. Lackey · 21 Oct 2008, 04:23 · from 2008-October.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:23:06 -0500
Subject: (urth) =?iso-8859-1?q?=22Myfather=27s_mountedguard=22=FE?=
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b sharp wrote:
>> Why would Wolfe make such a strong point that it is a "villa" which is
mainly defined as a secondary residence for the wealthy. What is the
family's primary residence? I propose it could be the Citadel itself.
Catherine seems to have been in residence there in one way or another and
this could make Severian's non-biological, cuckolded father the Castellan
and perhaps hints that Thecla is his sister. Using Borski's ideas, he did
have sex with Thecla and the Castellan is lame, marking them as family
members.<<
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Some inconvenient facts:
1) Thecla was an exultant. The exultants are a closed caste, meaning one
must be *born* to it, of exultant parents.

2) The lame (and still living) Castellan was not an exultant.

3) Thecla's father had given a ball for her each year until he *died*.

But I've said all this before.

-Roy

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