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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net
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On 12/4/2011 10:24 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR><BR>> > And probably not all
Latinate names can be associated with saints of <BR>> > both
genders.<BR><BR>> Absolutely not---it's one reason why I think there _is_
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> > What's convoluted about it?</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> > The explanation? Just that the torturers take the trouble to
select a <BR>> > twin’s name for the boy, but then say nothing to the
witches. <BR>> > [Assuming it’s a name indicative of a twin, obviously.
Perhaps there’s <BR>> > nothing there.]<BR><BR>> IT'S NOT A "TWIN'S
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<DIV>Surely the fact of it being one of the Latinate names that can be
associated with saints of either gender makes it a twins’ name in BotNS?
Of course it doesn’t have to be restricted to twins, but it’s a natural
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<DIV>> And why would they talk to the witches at all, ever?</DIV>
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<DIV>To say they have a baby girl for them. And for whatever reason
Severian was sent to the Witches Tower. Damp-proofing in the cellars of
nearby towers, who knows...</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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