(urth) Ouen and Dorcas and ??

[Ryan Dunn]

Depends on whether you believe the boatman to be Inire or one of his servants. If Severian is a Chosen One, and the Choosers want to raise him as an orphan, in a Guild of Torturers, then the breeding of the parents may have had to have been controlled.

I recently asked Gene whether BotNS could be interpreted/read as a Pinnochio story, were Pinnochio to have been told from the puppet's POV. Gene said he hadn't thought of it that way, but that it probably could. He also confessed he had never actually read Pinnochio, only viewed the Disney film.

...ryan

On Dec 6, 2010, at 7:51 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

>> Ouen: I never knew her, sieur.  Cas they called her, but she died when I was young.
>> in childbirth, my father said.
> 
> we could infer that Ouen finds the name "Cas" and "died when I was young" to be fact but
> "in childbirth" to be in question; that part described as his father's words only.
> 
> If so, I concur with Ouen that his father, the boat guy on the Lake of Birds, is a deceiver, not
> to be believed at face value.
> 
>> What else could this hide?
> 
> What indeed.