(urth) Seeing the signs...

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>
>>Gerry Quinn- The young-old face of the woman reminds me of Merryn. 
>>Perhaps this is a
>>characterisitic of the Witches.
>
> It is Merryn. It is she who answers the door to the Witches Keep and 
> guides Severian to the
> Cumaean sitting at her artificial landscape. There is the suggestion that 
> maybe there are only two
> witches born into the world over and over.

If the Witches are the sisters of the Torturers, there would seem to be a 
numerical anomaly here.

- Gerry Quinn