Drotte-Roche mixup

soloviev at irit.fr · 19 Apr 2011, 08:01 · from 2011-April.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (soloviev at irit.fr)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:01:04 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: (urth) Drotte-Roche mixup
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Dear James and David,

I am not so sure that this explanation is right. Please, remind, James,
where it is said that Rose's prosthetic hands are not flesh?
In the "Book of the New Sun" Severian has a friend Jonas, who
is a chem (at Urth at this time they are not called so), but
Jonas has one hand and some other parths taken from a bio -
he explains it himself to Severian. So the combination is
possible.

I don't remember where it was said, maybe it is your own
deduction that they (Rose's hands) are not flesh, only
"realistically veined", because they could be "grafted"
to Marble?

Best regards

Sergei Soloviev

> Ahhh ... that makes sense. I did not know Rose was actually in Marble's
> hands, or that her hands were not flesh. That explains my confusion.
>
> Wolfe has a thing for that, doesn't he---Sidero, for example?
>
> On 4/18/2011 6:55 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>> Correction:
>> Marble is a chem. Although she used to have facades that looked
>> generally realistic or possibly very realistic, they have long-ago
>> worn away.
>>
>> Rose is an old bio with many prostheses. In addition she has
>> prosthetic hands that have been made to look realistically old and
>> veiny.
>>
>> When Rose dies, the hands fit just fine on Marble's arms. Rose's
>> memories and identity have been downloaded effortlessly into the
>> hands. I think all of that is significant, but there are detractors.
>>
>> J
>>
>> On 4/18/2011 5:49 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>> I think I remember that---thanks.
>>>
>>> I always had trouble with them anyway. If I recall, Mint is a bio,
>>> Marble is a chem with fleshy prostheses, and Rose was an old bio with
>>> metal prostheses.
>>
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