(urth) Father Inire

[David Stockhoff]

On 12/3/2011 3:33 PM, entonio at gmail.com wrote:
> No dia 2011/12/03, às 14:49, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu:
>
>> Palaemon: “Nowhere but in Nessus - nowhere but here in the Citadel 
>> - is there a chapter of our guild. Lesser places have no more than a 
>> carnifex.”
>>
>> Severian is still wearing what he wore as a journeyman of the 
>> Torturers Guild.  A witch would recognise him as a torturer.  Jolenta 
>> calls him a carnifex, the name used for an executioner/torturer 
>> everywhere else.
>
> If those are the only two instances of the word, I'd say it's pretty 
> concluisive as to her not having been a witch - not that I see why she 
> should have been one.

It occurs to me that if we can argue Jolenta is Severa *because she was 
a witch*, we are already accepting that Merryn is (the prime candidate 
for) Severa.

Why? Because both arguments rely on the assumption that Severa is a witch.