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Vodalus and Severian continued

Andrew Mason · 28 Sep 2010, 14:03 · from 2010-September.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:03:17 +0100
Subject: (urth) Vodalus and Severian continued
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=W+xY3sAd10iUQMOuWtYM2M9RWAxZ4pjZLqY9j at mail.gmail.com>

Jane Delawney wrote:
>
> On 27/09/10 13:12, Lee Berman wrote:
>>
>> We are only introduced to two such victims, Thecla and the female corpse in the
>> first chapter of Shadow. I don't see much in the text to warrant speculation on
>> others.
>
> 'k, granted. However V's followers don't seem to find anything too
> abnormal in being invited to such a dinner (and there was obviously a
> tribade in there somewhere!)

I'd always assumed that Hildegrin was visiting the Garden of Endless
Sleep, while Severian and Agia were there, to look for another such
victim, suggesting it was quite a regular thing.

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