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DAVID STOCKHOFF · 14 Jan 2011, 15:46 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:46:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) (no subject)
In-Reply-To: <4D3066C2.40404 at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <880742.64172.qm at web84107.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

--- On Fri, 1/14/11, Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> David Stockhoff wrote (14-01-2011
>>>Someone else wrote

>>> I have wondered more than once in these annals
>>> about the lack of pregnancy in Valeria. I guess we
>>> could think of it as a pre-castration condition
>>> for the New Sun (what if he failed and faced castration;
>>> he can't have already had a child).

>> Yes, that kinda makes sense, and yet kinda doesn't quite explain it. Was Severian simply informed that any heir he produced would be killed?

> Rather Sev produce heir -> Sev no gets called to Yosed
> (methinks).

He must really want it, then, or has little interest in an heir. I suppose this is what the whole process of building his character toward respect for the highest authority points to: he chooses the authority vested in the Increate vs investing authority in an heir. 

Of course, that's assuming he could get an heir through the "coronation" process to begin with, AND assuming he didn't know any children might be drowned before adulthood. All these are disincentives. 

Plus, Severian already had a son and he killed him (ahem).

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