Is Agia a Robot?

David Stockhoff · 20 Jun 2010, 11:57 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:57:28 -0400
Subject: (urth) Is Agia a Robot?
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Yes. And I think her brown hair doesn't matter, either because it's not 
natural or because she's not of pure Asian descent.

Ryan Dunn wrote:
> Correct, David.
>
> Here were the two passages that definitely indicated Agia was of some type of Asian descent (to me, anyhow)...
>
> .
>
> "With her upturned nose and strangely tilted eyes, she looked so much like her brother I felt sure they were twins."
> (TSotT, Chap. 17, "The Challenge")
>
> "Beside me walked a suntanned girl with long and slanting eyes."
> (TCotA, Chap. 30, "The Corridors of Time")
>
> .
>
> ...ryan
>
>
> On Jun 19, 2010, at 8:40 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>
>   
>> Elsewhere, Severian refers to her eyes as "slanting." What else are we to think?
>>
>> Ryan Dunn wrote:
>>     
>>> ... and with those "strangely tilted eyes." A remnant of her former paracoital genicon self?
>>>
>>> :)
>>>
>>> ...ryan
>>>       
>
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