Ouen and Dorcas and ??

António Pedro Marques · 06 Dec 2010, 17:31 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gUGVkcm8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:31:07 +0000
Subject: (urth) Ouen and Dorcas and ??
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Son of Witz wrote (06-12-2010 17:25):
>
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 1:12 AM, Jeff Wilson<jwilson at io.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 12/5/2010 9:20 PM, Jane Delawney wrote:
>>> be interested to know if anyone else has any ideas on this though.
>>
>> Dorcas' physical description upon being found at the lake does not seem
>> to agree with her having died in the act of childbirth, and the
>> speculation on her parity prompted by the note also suggests she has no
>> readily visible signs like stretch marks to settle the matter. She's
>> otherwise rather slender, so I'm skeptical she could have lived long
>> enough to recover her non-pregnant physique and still die from childbed
>> fever or other birth complications.
>
> Hmm.  I doubt Severian would know what stretch marks were. I've also
> known women who bounce right back from childbirth to being slender, even
> without effort. Crazy, I know, but I've seen it. She might also have been
> malnourished and underweight in the pregancy. I'm surprised everyone sees
> her so young. I've always thought 18-23 range suited her.

She needn't have been resurrected in exactly the same physical shape she
died in. Yes, Severian keeps his scars and lameness, but it needn't be that way.

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