Breakfast with Apheta

Roy C. Lackey · 22 Jul 2008, 22:48 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:48:53 -0500
Subject: (urth) Breakfast with Apheta
Message-ID: <001001c8ec4d$2290a1c0$02ce4a0c@rclackey>

On the morning after Severian bedded Apheta, she brought him breakfast on a
tray. It consisted of "... small cakes, a carafe of cool water, and cups of
some steaming liquid that looked like milk and yet was not milk." (URTH, XX,
146) He ate one of the cakes and drank a cup of the milky fluid, after
Apheta took a bite of one of the cakes. I think this was the only meal
Severian mentioned having on Yesod, and I believe there is some significance
to its components or their combination that eludes me. Any ideas?

-Roy

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