tools and officer

Jerry Friedman · 02 May 2002, 21:54 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) tools and officer
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:54:24 -0700 (PDT)
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--- maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu> wrote:
> Say, I haven't been following the discussion of 5th Head too closely,
> but=20
> doesn't anyone think that the officer reading the repot is an abo?  He
> makes=20
> that women who services him open the package for him, and he seems
> reluctant=20
> to use tools (like a knife to open a package, if I remember correctly).=20
> That=20
> is just a vague impression from reading it a few years ago.  I will have
> the=20
> text in my hands again in about two weeks to re-read it. Those abos are=20
> everywhere.

Apparently!  The officer does have the male slave (a Gene Wolfe clone,
right?) draw the officer's dagger and cut the ropes on the package.
On the other hand, later the officer draws his own dagger and cuts a
page of V. R. T.'s notebook to compare the cut with the way the first
three pages have been removed.  The cut-out pages and the business
with the slave's drawing the dagger both mystify me.

Jerry Friedman
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