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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=severiansola@hotmail.com
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ceremony for eating just anyone. Thecla was important. But
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But SOMEBODY in power knows about it).
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not so fussy. It looks like they’ll eat anyone, at a pinch, even if some
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<DIV>"Going far this time? Going to drown yourself again?" (This from the man at
the back of our party, a mere disembodied voice in the dark.)</DIV>
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<DIV>"By Erebus, I'm going to sink so far you won't see me until winter."</DIV>
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<DIV>A voice I recognized as belonging to the armiger asked, "Have any of
you seen her yet?" The others had sounded merely boastful, but there was hunger
of a kind I had never heard before behind his simple words. He might have been
some lost traveler asking about his home.</DIV>
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<DIV>"No, Waldgrave."</DIV>
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<DIV>(Another voice.) "Alcmund says a good one, not old or too young."</DIV>
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<DIV>"Not another tribade, I hope."</DIV>
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<DIV>"I don't . . ."</DIV>
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<DIV>One might consider it as paralleling Severian’s sexual encounters with a
wide spectrum of Commonwealth society, and later his absorption of the minds of
previous Autarchs. The diabolical communion of the Vodalarii is still,
indeed, a sort of communion. Evil is good perverted.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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