Patera Incus

Gerry Quinn · 15 Aug 2010, 10:18 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:18:17 +0100
Subject: (urth) Patera Incus
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com>

>  1. Why Patera Inucus is a woman...

> 1.1.2 Second Attempt. This time Incus disguises his handwriting.
> "You know, my friend, yet it might be more thoughtully be said that you 
> cannot know, how much I have been looking forward to a _plain firsthand 
> account_ of the marvelous adventures of our mutual acquaintance Bee. Bee 
> himself.
>
> Incus thinks, "No, it would not do. Fulmar would be utterly thrown off the 
> scent by _the male pronoun_." [emphasis mine]
>
> Question how does the male pronoun throw Fulmar "off the scent"? Off the 
> scent of what?

Of who "Bee" is, surely?  Wasn't it short for a female's name, somebody 
other than Incus, who had reprogrammed the valet chem?

Still, you make some interesting points.  Maybe he is after all a woman in 
disguise.

- Gerry Quinn

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