Breakfast with Apheta

Paul B · 24 Jul 2008, 14:43 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: pb.stuff at gmail.com (Paul B)
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:43:56 -0400
Subject: (urth) Breakfast with Apheta
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Well, they do ostensibly have some surplus autarch testicles lying around...
Which incidentally brings up an interesting inconsistency:  if I remember
correctly, the reason given for the castration of Epitome candidates is to
prevent them from forming dynasties, but this measure would clearly not work
for the majority of autarchs who apparently never even went to Yesod.
(Severian seems to have trouble recalling others besides Ymar and his
predecessor)
It's an odd rule to apply to a minor, and perhaps better, part of the pool.
Nevertheless, there don't seem to be dynasties anyway.

Paul

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Sue <sywi at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
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>>
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>> Don't have too much to add, except that now that I've been prompted to
>> consider the meal more closely, the 'milky fluid' seems to me suggestive of
>> semen.
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>
> Welcome to the list!
>
> Re: milky fluid: And I just thought I had a dirty mind... Not sure what the
> significance of that would be though - perhaps Apheta's returning Severian's
> favor?
>
> -Matt
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