(urth) Juturna, the Missing Sister

Jerry Friedman jerry_friedman at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 27 12:13:04 PDT 2010


From: Adam Thornton <adam at io.com>

>
> On 07/27/2010 12:34 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>> We expect Severa to have been a witch (exiled?) and we don't know what 
Jolenta
>> was doing before her months as a waitress. Wolfe hides her hair color when
>> Severian first meets her then seems to reveal it with the "newly hatched 
>chick"
>> thing. Borski thinks the "gold" hair is a sign for Severian family-hood.
>    
> Objection!  Why should the carpet match the drapes?

The Cumaean refers to Jolenta as "big red gold" in contrast to Dorcas, "little 
pale-hair"  (CotC, Ch. XXX).  It hadn't occurred to me till now that her mention 
of two colors, with no hyphen, might refer to the cuffs not matching the 
collars.

Newly hatched chicks may  be various colors.

http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=571&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=newly+hatched+chicks


I now return you to your contemplation of these matters.

Jerry Friedman



      



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