(urth) Severa

[David Stockhoff]

On 12/4/2011 7:24 PM, andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com wrote:
> >
> >
> David Stockhoff wrote:
> >
> > IT'S NOT A "TWIN'S NAME."
>
> Not a twin's name specifically, but, as we are told by Ava, a 
> brother-sister name. I take that to be the principal reason for 
> thinking that Severian has a sister in the first place. (In this case 
> it presumably does signify twinhood. If the torturers chose it, they 
> would have no reason to choose a brother-sister name unless the sister 
> was right there. If Catherine did, since she had been separated from 
> her lover and was unlikely to meet him again, she wouldn't be planning 
> for more children at that moment) 

Exactly.