Patera Incus

Roy C. Lackey · 16 Aug 2010, 19:18 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:18:07 -0500
Subject: (urth) Patera Incus
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At 04:45 CDT this date, James Wynn wrote:
>   Roy,
>
> I don't think you and I are going to come to an agreement about this.

 Agreed.

At 08:25 CDT this date, he wrote:
[snip]
> Consequently, because of
> the way I came to this conclusion, if Wolfe himself told me that Incus
> was not female, I'd call him a g d liar (not that I think that will
> happen). It is as clearly stated in the text for me as the question of
> whether there are inhumis on the Whorl.

And at 09:14 CDT this date he wrote:
> This is cool. I detailed why Incus is a woman for general informational
> edification, rather than for help working out the theory. As I said,
> it's a point of fact for me--beyond proving, debating, or working out.
[snip]

If nothing that I, or Wolfe, or anyone else *can* say can change your mind,
well, that speaks for itself. There is nothing left to say.

-Roy

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