Father Inire

entonio at gmail.com · 04 Dec 2011, 01:54 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (entonio at gmail.com)
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 01:54:29 +0000
Subject: (urth) Father Inire
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No dia 2011/12/03, ?s 20:59, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>  
escreveu:

> On 12/3/2011 3:33 PM, entonio at gmail.com wrote:
>> No dia 2011/12/03, ?s 14:49, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> es 
>> creveu:
>>
>>> Palaemon: ?Nowhere but in Nessus - nowhere but here in the Citad 
>>> el - is there a chapter of our guild. Lesser places have no more 
>>>  than a carnifex.?
>>>
>>> Severian is still wearing what he wore as a journeyman of the  
>>> Torturers Guild.  A witch would recognise him as a torturer.   
>>> Jolenta calls him a carnifex, the name used for an executioner/ 
>>> torturer everywhere else.
>>
>> If those are the only two instances of the word, I'd say it's  
>> pretty concluisive as to her not having been a witch - not that I  
>> see why she should have been one.
>
> It occurs to me that if we can argue Jolenta is Severa *because she  
> was a witch*, we are already accepting that Merryn is (the prime  
> candidate for) Severa.
>
> Why? Because both arguments rely on the assumption that Severa is a  
> witch.

Which would only be weighty if she had been born in her morher's  
captivity.

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