(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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