the assassin

Roy C. Lackey · 31 May 2006, 22:43 · from 2006-May.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:43:29 -0500
Subject: (urth) the assassin
Message-ID: <001601c68503$a69645a0$233ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>

bsharp wrote:

>Hm. now that I think about it, the assassin was masked, right? Agia would
>have been very old and Severian has been known to make mistakes before.
Then
>there is always the Path of Air...

Uh, no, the assassin didn't have a mask of any kind. And Severian
specifically mentions seeing the guy's face as it reanimated. The assassin
had a batardeau, which is a large knife. (URTH, 291) I can't see that Agia
had anything to do with the assassin.

-Roy

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