(urth) his own father

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Sat Dec 15 01:32:46 PST 2007


Ashley Crill wrote:
>> > 2) Is the Cumaean the heavenly same being that Sev sleeps with in the> fifth volume, while on Yesod? (By the way, has it come up in the> discussions that Yesod means "foundation" in Hebrew?) I seem to> remember from my last reading of Urth of the NS that Severian implies> that he fathers himself in that encounter.
> 
> During that encounter, Severian gave birth to the New Sun, which was himself. Hopefully that clears it up. =)

Ouch! I presume he glossed over the necessary C-section?

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