Breakfast with Apheta

brunians at brunians.org · 23 Jul 2008, 08:44 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:44:30 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) Breakfast with Apheta
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It doesn't look like it. Ambrosia is a type of honey, and nektar a type of
mead.

I am not sure if GW knows this, but I bet he does, he knows all sorts of
other odd stuff. If he doesn't, of course, it could be intended to be.




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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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