The Katharine maid

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 25 Oct 2006, 20:26 · from 2006-October.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:26:41 -0700
Subject: (urth) The Katharine maid
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Roy,

An eidolon is an interesting idea, but where does the eidolon
technology come from? Are you suggesting that some group of
Hiero-Foos have been projecting the Katherine-maid into the
Cathedral all these years? For what reason?

I offered another suggestion a few days back that meets the
criteria you lay out. An artificial person, a la Jonas -- I guess we'd
have to call her a chem? -- might easily enough be built with an
optionally-detachable head. (Recall that Severian is sure he feels
the neck sever under his blow.)  Since chem-building technology
was clearly around in Typhon's (and therefore Ymar's) day, this
removes any necessity for alien intervention.

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