Ouen and Dorcas and ??

Ryan Dunn · 06 Dec 2010, 18:34 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: ryan at liftingfaces.com (Ryan Dunn)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:34:52 -0500
Subject: (urth) Ouen and Dorcas and ??
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTindDeG=GGZi=jJjHCzfaF3vtP-u1UOSWakQRU3o at mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTindDeG=GGZi=jJjHCzfaF3vtP-u1UOSWakQRU3o at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAA38081-65BF-4B32-9DE7-06ADD7B38BA3 at liftingfaces.com>

On Dec 6, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:

> I think we know it's -cas, because Ouen says his mother was called
> Cas, but the picture he has is of Dorcas. Also - though this is a clue
> only for us, the readers, not for Severian - the chapter in which the
> old boatman talks about his wife is called 'Dorcas', although that
> name is mentioned nowhere in it.

Do we know whether Severian titled the chapters of his own tome? I had never thought of that.

...ryan

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net