Apricots at the Piteous Gate
The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 24 Feb 2006
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Mark Boyle — 24 Feb 2006, 10:57

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy C. Lackey [mailto:rclackey at stic.net]
Sent: 24 February 2006 08:50
To: The Urth Mailing List
Subject: Re: (urth) The Piteous Gate

[snip]

No, something happened inside the long tunnel through the wall that was so
frightening and immediate a threat as to cause the travelers to panic trying
to get away from it. They fled to the closest exit, some, like the man on
the wagon who struck Dorcas

That was the chap, was it not, on whom Severian inflicted the excruciation
he referred to as "Two Apricots"? For some reason, that brief, two-word
title always made my skin crawl. :<



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Duncan Truter — 24 Feb 2006, 12:02
  in reply to Mark Boyle

> On 2/24/06, Mark Boyle <mboyle at afblakemore.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy C. Lackey [mailto:rclackey at stic.net]
> Sent: 24 February 2006 08:50
> To: The Urth Mailing List
> Subject: Re: (urth) The Piteous Gate
> 
> [snip]
> 
> No, something happened inside the long tunnel through the wall that was so
> frightening and immediate a threat as to cause the travelers to panic trying
> to get away from it. They fled to the closest exit, some, like the man on
> the wagon who struck Dorcas
> 
> That was the chap, was it not, on whom Severian inflicted the excruciation
> he referred to as "Two Apricots"? For some reason, that brief, two-word
> title always made my skin crawl. :<

he said he was planning on performing that excruciation on the man,
but the guy got trampled first (pretty lucky, really).

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Mark Boyle — 24 Feb 2006, 12:12
  follows, by subject match Duncan Truter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Truter [mailto:dtruter at gmail.com]
> Sent: 24 February 2006 12:02
> To: The Urth Mailing List
> Subject: Re: (urth) Apricots at the Piteous Gate
> 
> 
> On 2/24/06, Mark Boyle <mboyle at afblakemore.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roy C. Lackey [mailto:rclackey at stic.net]
> > Sent: 24 February 2006 08:50
> > To: The Urth Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: (urth) The Piteous Gate
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > No, something happened inside the long tunnel through the 
> > wall that was so
> > frightening and immediate a threat as to cause the 
> > travelers to panic trying
> > to get away from it. They fled to the closest exit, some, 
> > like the man on
> > the wagon who struck Dorcas
> > 
> > That was the chap, was it not, on whom Severian inflicted 
> > the excruciation
> > he referred to as "Two Apricots"? For some reason, that 
> > brief, two-word
> > title always made my skin crawl. :<

> he said he was planning on performing that excruciation on the man,
> but the guy got trampled first (pretty lucky, really).

Blimey, you're right. :) You'd think I'd remember that, given that I read
the books annually.


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