(urth) Ouen and Dorcas and ??

[António Pedro Marques]

Ryan Dunn wrote:
> Why couldn't the author (Severian) have written them in, and the
> translator (G.W.) have translated the breaks?
>
> Not saying one is right and one is wrong, but what makes you think it
> "had to be the translator"? I ask out of genuine curiosity.

I think there are precendents of editors of that kind of stories doing just 
that kind of thing.

Of course Severian _could_ have done it.