Brother Cook and Brother Porter: Robots or Crappy Torturers?

Jerry Friedman · 04 Jul 2010, 14:05 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 07:05:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Brother Cook and Brother Porter: Robots or Crappy
	Torturers?
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"According to Wolfe he [Brother Porter] is a regular torturer of the Guild who does not actually do any torturing."

/Lexicon Urthus/, 2nd ed., p. 288.  Michael Andre-Driussi says the same thing, but without the "according to Wolfe", about  Brother Cook, Brother Aybert (who may be Brother Cook), and Brother Corbinian the apothecary.  He also notes the Brother Porter in Typhon's time in TUotNS, ch. 36.

This shoots down my theory that Brother Cook is really Hercule Flambeau and Brother Porter is really the Chatelaine Mannea.

Jerry Friedman

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