Seeing the signs...

Gerry Quinn · 16 Dec 2010, 19:31 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:31:09 -0000
Subject: (urth) Seeing the signs...
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From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>
>>Gerry Quinn- The young-old face of the woman reminds me of Merryn. 
>>Perhaps this is a
>>characterisitic of the Witches.
>
> It is Merryn. It is she who answers the door to the Witches Keep and 
> guides Severian to the
> Cumaean sitting at her artificial landscape. There is the suggestion that 
> maybe there are only two
> witches born into the world over and over.

If the Witches are the sisters of the Torturers, there would seem to be a 
numerical anomaly here.

- Gerry Quinn

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