(urth) Merger

[Lee Berman]

> 2. He will fail to bring the New Sun and be unmanned. But the hierogrammates will bestow upon
> him a nice parting gift to make up for his lost testicles and the gift of resurrection will
> be bestowed retroactively in time.
 
 
>Jeff Wilson- Would that not also undo the emasculation?
 
Heh. Restoring my own crotch might be a high priority if I had the power of resurrection.
Lucky Severian didn't have to, I guess (though as far as we know he remained childless).
 
I still argue that a simple, non-emasculating vasectomy would have done the trick. Something
fishy going on there. You'd almost think there was a conspiracy to put androgyny into the 
story as much as possible.