(urth) Severian's skin color

[don doggett]

--- Sarah Dorrance-Minch <isobelwren at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> I find this alternative interpretation of Severian's
> parentage intriguing, although it's warping my mind.
> All right, I admit it, my brain cells aren't turning
> the hamster wheel of my mind fast enough today.
> What's
> the rationale behind it?

It's been discounted by most people on the list, but
the rationale  in a nutshell is the parallels between
Sev's life and Ymar's, clues in the Tale of Frog
(sorry, my  books are on unintentionaly permanent loan
- I  should know better by now.)  And the fact that
Sev's confrontation with Typhon reflects the hero's
confrontation with his father in Joseph Campbell's
whatever-you-call-it theory. Here's the links to my
argument from long ago. 
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0303/3022.txt.shtml
and
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0303/3023.txt.shtml

Don


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