Ouen and Dorcas and ??

António Pedro Marques · 07 Dec 2010, 01:30 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ant=F3nio_Pedro_Marques?=)
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:30:01 +0000
Subject: (urth) Ouen and Dorcas and ??
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Ryan Dunn wrote:
> Why couldn't the author (Severian) have written them in, and the
> translator (G.W.) have translated the breaks?
>
> Not saying one is right and one is wrong, but what makes you think it
> "had to be the translator"? I ask out of genuine curiosity.

I think there are precendents of editors of that kind of stories doing just 
that kind of thing.

Of course Severian _could_ have done it.

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