(urth) Sev's common lineage

[Jeff Wilson]

Dave Tallman wrote:
> Andrew says:
>> A couple of other things I like about my little Sev-lineage story. 
>> First & most obviously, it explains Sev's silence about Catherine: 
>> he's just not letting on that he's the product of an incestuous union. 
>> We don't have to try to guess whether Cathreine committed some 
>> discreditable crime that he's hiding.
>>   
> And if my theory is correct and Sev is the product of a time-traveler he 
> has an even stronger motive for reticence: self-preservation. He doesn't 
> want to give his enemies scope for terminator scenarios which attack his 
> mother before he can be conceived.

Severian's remarks in the ms indicate he has no worries that anyone else 
will ever see the book he is writing. I suppose that could be a ruse to 
fool spies, but then the entire Book is suspect as a tissue of lies and 
we might as well give up now.

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