Is Agia a robot?

David Stockhoff · 18 Jun 2010, 12:27 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:27:27 -0400
Subject: (urth) Is Agia a robot?
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I had forgotten about the scrawl. But Agia and Agilus' relationship is 
definitely depicted as holy and (tw)incestuous. They are indeed 
extremely important characters.

They may of course not be twins or siblings at all.

They may be anything at all.

But their relationship is holy and sexual and their bodies show zero 
dimorphism.

Ryan Dunn wrote:
> Or what about:
>
> Agilus as cacogen (hierodule?), and Agia as robot clone.
>
> Also, have you guys already discussed what were the runes and strange maplike design she scrawled into the ground where she had thrown down Severian's orichalk?
>
> "When I left him, the orichalk was gone. In its place - and no doubt with its edge - a design had been scratched on the filthy stones. It might have been the snarling face of Jurupari, or perhaps a map, and it was wreathed with letters I did not know."
>
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> Or the aureole of light which surrounded Agia and Agilus's joined heads when Severian barged in on them laying naked together face-to-face?
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> "Inside a naked man lay upon straw. A chain ran from the iron collar bout his neck to the wall. A woman, naked too, bent over him, her long, brown hair falling past her face and his so that it seemed to unite them."
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> "He stared at his hands, slender and rather soft, where they lay in the narrow beam of sunlight that had given his head, and Agia's, an aureole a few moments before."
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> It's all probably trivial for some, but I find these two characters unsettlingly important to the series for some reason, and wish I could better understand their weirdness.
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> ...ryan
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