Katharine and the Conciliator

C R Culver · 04 May 1998, 02:07 · from urth-v0010.mbox · original

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From: C R Culver <CRCulver at aol.com>
Subject: Re:  (urth) Katharine and the Conciliator
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 22:07:16 EDT
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FunkMonkey,
<Do you really believe that the tomb of the Conciliator would remain
unguarded, open and accessable.>

I guess not...

<Maybe the tomb is really Sev1 who returns to Urth from Yesod (in the past =
of
course), marries, has children, and lives out his days in defeat.  (or do y=
ou
die when you fail the trial?)>

For those who have failed the trial (Ymar and the Old Autarch), the punishm=
ent
was castration. I suppose it would be the same for Sev1.
He wouldn't have had children.

Hypothesizing on which Severian is in that tomb is easy; what is hard is
trying to explain why that Severian would pick those three symbols to put on
the tomb (a fountain, a rose, and a ship volant).

Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>
http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html
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