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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net
href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">David Stockhoff</A> </DIV>
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12/4/2011 9:10 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR><BR>> > Certainly the book seems
to be suggesting that a twin sister exists <BR>> > somewhere.<BR>> >
With regard to this question, it doesn’t really matter if the <BR>> >
torturers pick names, or defer to the client’s wishes.<BR>> > There is a
possibility that occurs to me – the torturers name the boy <BR>> > and the
witches name the girl. Might the torturers have given a twin’s <BR>> >
name to the boy, then handed over the girl to the witches, who gave <BR>>
> her a standard name? It would explain Merryn’s name, but it seems a
<BR>> > slightly convoluted explanation.<BR><BR>> That's what I said,
except that Severian is not "a twin's name." It's <BR>> just a name. Any
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<DIV>"She was your sister, wasn't she?"</DIV>
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<DIV>He nodded. "We were twins. Big Severian, did you ever have a sister?"</DIV>
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<DIV>"I don't know. My family is all dead. They've been dead since I was a baby.
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<DIV><BR>And probably not all Latinate names can be associated with saints of
both genders.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> What's convoluted about it?<BR></DIV>
<DIV>The explanation? Just that the torturers take the trouble to select a
twin’s name for the boy, but then say nothing to the witches. [Assuming
it’s a name indicative of a twin, obviously. Perhaps there’s nothing
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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