All You Zombies...Re: (urth) Re: When Did You Last See Your Father?

... And Dorcas' first child Ouen, in whose childbirth (? or infancy, at least) she died the first time, apparently was Sev's father! If we buy the idea that the new baby is Catherine, Sev becomes one of those "All You Zombies.." type casualty-loop casualties with no ancestry and no beginning! Consider what Dr. Talos said of Baldanders when he obtained his audience with the newly seated Autarch Severian in the Citadel: " But Baldanders was his own creation; he stood behind himself, and cut himself off from the line linking the rest of us with the Increate." Could the same, in this scenario, be said of Severian? Recall previous discussions about parallels of episodes in Severian's adventures with the life of Christ (e.g. the Temptation, Typhon as Tempter). Could this be the parallel to the Virgin Birth? Savior, or Devil?

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... Whoops! This is what I get for getting impulsive just before staff-meeting time. I realize that the idea is still at this point full of holes in that Sev would need to be the sole ancestor of Dorcas and "Charon" [Dorcas' brokenhearted elderly widower in the boat dragging the Lake of Birds in the Garden of Endless Sleep, Sev's grandfather] and in turn their ancestors. Heinlein, you will recall, solved the dilemma in "All You Zombies.." with a very rare hermaphroditism/sex change(call it Tieresias' Syndrome?), but of course the protagonist came from nowhere anyway, so why not? Perhaps if it can be shown that all Sev's male ancestors were ultimately himself, he could still have one or more female ancestors, e.g. Dorcas, and the Casualty-Loop=Miraculous-Conception model might still hold, since of course the Virgin Mary came of a conventional ancestry. Any clues re "Charon's" parents?