Who's Right?

Lee Berman · 04 Dec 2010, 08:33 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 03:33:55 -0500
Subject: (urth) Who's Right?
Message-ID: <SNT123-W295217B679CCE7909EEE8FCF290 at phx.gbl>

>Witz-ovitch: I'm of the opinion that if these puzzles don't yield real symbolic meat they aren't 
>worth pursuing.

Amen brother!

>Witzendez: That being said, the idea that the Katherine he symbolically beheads is is mother is 
Roast fucking Beef.  Severian has to destroy Mother Urth.

Far out! That is a great symbolic connection. I don't think I've seen it observed before.

>McWitz: Now, I don't get the Contessa at all. Is she Catherine? It makes some sense. But theories 
say she might be the daughter of Valeria and Dux Caducius, but I don't see the evidence.

I think the Dux idea was Borski's. Makes no sense to me either. But the Catherine-Contessa connection
came first from Borski I think. Credit where due.  I think Dave Tallman's elaboration is very nice 
though I always manage to put my own spin on things too. I think it was discussed in here last June or 
so. Worth posting a recap?

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