Brother Cook and Brother Porter: Robots or Crappy Torturers?

David Stockhoff · 04 Jul 2010, 11:31 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:31:39 -0400
Subject: (urth) Brother Cook and Brother Porter: Robots
	or	Crappy	Torturers?
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They could also just be titles---whoever is the cook is Brother Cook.

Jeff Wilson wrote:
> 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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