Ouen and Dorcas and ??

Lee Berman · 06 Dec 2010, 12:51 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 07:51:18 -0500
Subject: (urth) Ouen and Dorcas and ??
Message-ID: <SNT123-W15D67CCD52C0BCFD5A7F6CF2B0 at phx.gbl>

>David Stockhoff- However, if this were a Gothic mystery, we would assume the father was 
>at least hiding something to protect his son---such as, she killed herself some time during 
>Ouen's first year. Most people raised on such half-truths would not question such a small discrepancy.

I can agree with your thinking. Moreover if we parse Ouen's statement more tightly:

>Ouen: I never knew her, sieur.  Cas they called her, but she died when I was young.
>in childbirth, my father said.

we could infer that Ouen finds the name "Cas" and "died when I was young" to be fact but
"in childbirth" to be in question; that part described as his father's words only.

If so, I concur with Ouen that his father, the boat guy on the Lake of Birds, is a deceiver, not
to be believed at face value.

>What else could this hide?

What indeed.

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