(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 173

[James Wynn]

> Son of Witz-
> Here is an idea:
> Spring Wind and Bird of the Wood have a sort of tryst, a brief encounter when he comes to Urth. If S.W. Is Typhon, couldn't BotW be Catherine the tim travelling Contessa, shuttered back to Typhon's era for an engineered tryst, then she is back through the corridors of time, or the mirrors, to birth in Severian's era.
> Fish and Frog are set adrift on a STREAM. I think thys is a metonymic relation to The Brook Madrigot, and the story reads, "Far that basket sailed..." perhaps the womb-basket sailed up the stream of time.
>

I like the idea of the stream as Brook Madrigot. In fact, that 
interpretation seems obvious now. If Catherine were a time traveller, it 
explains where she's got to. But if Sev's followers kill his brother, 
that event should be easy to identify.

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