(urth) The Two Coins

António Pedro Marques entonio at gmail.com
Sat Aug 14 13:58:27 PDT 2010


Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> Gerry Quinn:
>>> No, there was positive ID from Ouen's locket, and lots of supporting
>>> evidence.  Also the narrator plays detective and finds this out with no
>>> particular reason for us to doubt it, which IMO is a literary signal that
>>> this is canon.
>>> The hypothesis that Dorcas is Severian's grandmother has distinctive
>>> characteristics that many such hypotheses lack...
>>
>> That Severian seems to be actively investigating his family tree does add
>> a somewhat unique aspect to this puzzle. Boatman as grandfather, Ouen as
>> father and Holy Katharine maid as mother joins in this aspect. (I must
>> wonder why the Boatman, alone, remains unnamed).
>
> I don't think there is confirmation that Holy Katherine and Mom are the
> same person.

I can't help feeling that the question of who is who is just not very 
interesting unless 'who' turns out to be someone we know for more than 2 
pages. (Corollary: if his mother is just Holy Katharine's template or 
doesn't even enter the story at all, then...)



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