Catherine

David Stockhoff · 25 Oct 2011, 02:49 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:49:04 -0400
Subject: (urth) Catherine
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On 10/24/2011 9:50 PM, larry miller wrote:
> That makes perfect sense to me.  Doesnt Sev search for the Atrium from
> above in a flyer when Auturch? This fits nicely with The Last House
> that can only be seen and approached from certain angles. And it was
> the Pelerines (that Catherine belonged to) that sent Sev to Ash with
> very specific directions to find the Last House.  Perhaps the
> Pelerines have some connection with the Temporal Obfuscation
> technology adherrant to these structures?  Perhaps even Mannea herself
> once inhabited the Atrium and thus knows how said structures are to be
> found.

Why would the Pelerines have anything to do with the Atrium of Time?

Catherine had escaped from them---not to them---so why would she go 
there afterward?

What good is a secret that neither we nor the narrator can guess?

Who would have allowed Catherine to escape there when all the signs 
point to her death by beheading?

Severian knows the Atrium---why does he run there to marry Valeria 
without once stopping by to see his mother?

Mannea is yet another Pelerine named after a saint who was beheaded.

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