lameness

David Stockhoff · 15 Jan 2011, 03:08 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:08:57 -0500
Subject: (urth) lameness
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On 1/14/2011 9:04 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
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> The discussion is of the barren nature of Severian and Valeria's marriage. His thigh wound
> was at the Battle of Orithya. Most of his sexual encounters were previous to this wounding.
> Severian's lameness is healed after his trip to Yesod so any later sexual encounters would
> seem to fall in a different category.
Right.
>
> ...
> Perhaps it is not a coincidence that Severian is (temporarily) lamed in the fiacre accident
> when he is in the Pelerine's cathedral and receives the Claw of the Conciliator.
Interesting! A bit of foreboding.
>
> I've wondered for a while about The Castellan.  His lack of a name and the attention to his details
> the story gives are suspicious. Also, he is lame. If his lameness can be attributed to a castrating
> war wound then a few pieces fall into place. We can know how he knew his wife Catherine had been
> unfaithful (her pregnancy).
The theory is that Severian is the son of Catherine, the wife of the 
Castellan and lover of the inn-keeper, Whosis?


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