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[Gerry Quinn]

From: Gerry Quinn 
> As for the mermaid’s kiss, the fact remains that Baldanders doesn’t need it.  
> How the kiss would have worked, I don’t know – perhaps Juturna’s saliva 
> contains nanomachines that would have restructured Severian’s body for 
> underwater living, or perhaps Wolfe would have been content to leave the
>  matter unexplained.   But Baldanders already has his gills, hidden in plain
>  sight by Wolfe as he likes to do.

And (I should have noted) Juturna has no antigravity belt, and she could certainly have benefited from one.  Nor, if I recall correctly, does Severian mention any gills, though I suppose it may be that his eyes were drawn elsewhere.  The technologies, magicks or whatever are different. 

- Gerry Quinn
 
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