Is Agia a robot?

brunians at brunians.org · 17 Jun 2010, 22:54 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:54:45 -0400
Subject: (urth) Is Agia a robot?
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I did not remember that reference.

Thanks.

It does not nullify my hypothesis.

We used to call hydraulic fluid red juice, or cherry juice in the service.

That is because it is red, very much in the way blood is red.

There is a very slight difference in color.

I don't know that you'd notice, if you were focussed on bringing off as
difficult an act as a public execution with the attention to detail that
Severian brings to everything he does.

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> Brunians wrote:
>>Gene calls robots 'chems'.
>
>>Does he call them that because they are mechanical?
>
>
> "Chems are wonderful constructions, a race that we bios created long
> ago, our own image in metal and synthetics."
> LOTLS, chapter seven.
>
> "No, no." Maytera Marble's one functioning hand gripped the arm of her
> chair so tightly that the upholstery rose like dough between its metal
> fingers.
> EFTLL, chapter five
>
> Auk was peering at the mass of mechanisms the plate had concealed. "I
> see little specks of light."
> Incus was triumphant. "...His primary cable has been severed, and
> those are the ends of the fibres."
> COTLS, chapter two
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