Breakfast with Apheta

thalassocrat at nym.hush.com · 24 Jul 2008, 01:31 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat at nym.hush.com (thalassocrat at nym.hush.com)
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:31:05 +1000
Subject: (urth) Breakfast with Apheta
Message-ID: <20080724013106.5A5261A003A at mailserver8.hushmail.com>

Roy wrote:

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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?

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She's drugged him, I guess. Just another part of the set-up for the 
sham "trial". (And vague shades of Circe?)

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