(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 173

[James Wynn]

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>> 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.
>>
>
> James Wynn-
> 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.

I just remembered that there IS cloning in tBotNS. The House Azure, right?

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