Brother Cook and Brother Porter: Robots or Crappy Torturers?

Jeff Wilson · 04 Jul 2010, 06:35 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:35:57 -0500
Subject: (urth) Brother Cook and Brother Porter: Robots or
	Crappy	Torturers?
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On 7/3/2010 10:09 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Presumably they never became journeymen---maybe they were lousy torturers.

I'm looking over references to them and otherwise to brothers. While 
writing of his apprentice days, Sev refers to brother apprentices and 
journeymen. After his elevation, it is brother journeymen and 
apprentices, but he still refers to passing Brother Porter on the day of 
his expulsion. Could they be something like midshipmen?

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