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From: Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce@gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu> Subject: Re: (urth) Jolenta and Dorcas Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 15:36:00 Well, it's possible the relationship between Jolenta and Dorcas is intended to strain our credulity--it seems unlikely that Severian has _witnessed_ anything, and I think there's a good chance this is just Sev.'s jealous imagination at work (and possibly a hint of Proust's Marcel's obsessive probing of Albertine's relations with women--although Severian is much more matter-of-fact about it and in Proust the suspicion is justified, while here it may not be). "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 -- Alex David Groce (agroce+@cs.cmu.edu) Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department 8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/