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[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/14/2011 9:07 AM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote (14-01-2011 13:00):
>
>>> I have wondered more than once in these annals about the lack of
>>> pregnancy in Valeria. I guess we
>>> could think of it as a pre-castration condition for the New Sun (what
>>> if he failed and faced castration;
>>> he can't have already had a child).
>> Yes, that kinda makes sense, and yet kinda doesn't quite explain it. Was
>> Severian simply informed that any heir he produced would be killed?
>
> Rather Sev produce heir -> Sev no gets called to Yosed (methinks).

It makes sense to not bother asking people to destroy the world if their 
kids are on it, esp when you have the freedom to move in time to the 
ones who don't have kids. In this vein, Inire or whomever also seems to 
seek out candidates who have as few other family ties as possible (Ymar, 
"Appian") and are practiced at hardening themselves to human suffering 
(Ymar was a jailer, "Appian" served under the honey steward and so was 
probably complicit in the Antechamber detention to the point of 
delivering the pastries and coffee himself).

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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