Breakfast with Apheta

David Duffy · 23 Jul 2008, 08:40 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au (David Duffy)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:40:42 +1000 (EST)
Subject: (urth) Breakfast with Apheta
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Roy C. Lackey wrote:

> 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
>

Is it ambrosia?

David Duffy.

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