Severa

David Stockhoff · 05 Dec 2011, 01:20 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:20:05 -0500
Subject: (urth) Severa
In-Reply-To: <00151758b1cc6e14e304b34d576a at google.com>
References: <00151758b1cc6e14e304b34d576a at google.com>
Message-ID: <4EDC1C45.4020809 at verizon.net>

On 12/4/2011 7:24 PM, andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com wrote:
> >
> >
> David Stockhoff wrote:
> >
> > IT'S NOT A "TWIN'S NAME."
>
> Not a twin's name specifically, but, as we are told by Ava, a 
> brother-sister name. I take that to be the principal reason for 
> thinking that Severian has a sister in the first place. (In this case 
> it presumably does signify twinhood. If the torturers chose it, they 
> would have no reason to choose a brother-sister name unless the sister 
> was right there. If Catherine did, since she had been separated from 
> her lover and was unlikely to meet him again, she wouldn't be planning 
> for more children at that moment) 

Exactly.

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