Patera Incus

James Wynn · 15 Aug 2010, 18:10 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:10:28 -0500
Subject: (urth) Patera Incus
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>
>> James Wynn-
>> The valet had been altered by Incus. Thus, "satisfaction" at asking 
>> how long since he had received his wages.
>
> Gerry Quinn-
> No, he was alered by Fulmar with the help of Incus. "The valet had 
> been a most creditable little project, and one Fulmar could never have 
> brought to its wholly successful conclusion without his help."

Tomayto Tomahto.

>
> I don't see what the gender of either chem has to do with anything.

Me neither. When Incus writes "our friend Bee. Bee himself." and then 
decides "Fulmar would be utterly thrown off the scent by _the male 
pronoun_", he is not referring to the sex of any chem. But there is no 
reference to Bittersweet in the first email.

>
> The message was: "I can't make it tonight."  The rest is chit-chat.

Why not just say, "I can't make it tonight due to Chapter duties"? Why 
reference Bittersweet at all? Once again, there is no mention of 
Bittersweet in the first email. Yet it was considered riskier than the 
second where you suppose Incus is employing a code name for Bittersweet.

>
> And why would Incus be planting clues of this kind anyway?  He really 
> wanted to see Bittersweet's porter, that is made clear in the text. 
> Why does he want to make puzzles for Fulmar?

Incus is attempting to reveal herself to Fulmar, "my dear friend". It 
seems, she is in love and knows the relationship will not progress as 
long as Fulmar continues to consider it fraternal. (It's not "Victor 
Victoria", it's "Yentl".)

She wants to impart the information in a way that Fulmar will come to 
the conclusion himself. She is afraid of shocking him.

It's interesting to me that you presume the letters have to do with a 
desire to see Bittersweet's demonstration. In my experience, most 
readers think Incus is attempting to reveal a homosexual love for 
Fulmar. I hope I at least shown that that is not likely.

u+16b9

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