Who are Robert and Marie

Don Palumbo · 29 Jun 2003, 16:31 · from urth-v0306.mbox · original

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From: Don Palumbo <enpalumb at earthlink.net>
Subject: (urth) Who are Robert and Marie
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 09:31:49 -0700
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List,

I know you have had an inconclusive running discussion regarding who
these characters may be.=C2=A0 Since just about all of the many apparent
allusions in BOTNS are rather easily identifiable, I'm hoping that
someone can identify these characters, too:

in Chapter 21 of SHADOW OF THE TORTURER, in the Jungle Garden of the
Botanic Garden, Severian and Agia enter a jungle tree hut containing two
apparently early-twentieth-century characters and a native named
Insangoma.=C2=A0 The other characters are a husband and wife named Robert
and Marie.=C2=A0 Robert is also a former art student in Paris and appears
to have malaria.=C2=A0 (In reference to your earlier musings, the malaria
may account for Robert's ability to see S & A.)=C2=A0 But who are
these people?

--Don Palumbo</html>

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