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maa3201 May 2002, 05:59original as archived

tools and officer

Say, I haven't been following the discussion of 5th Head too closely, but doesn't anyone think that the officer reading the repot is an abo? He makes that women who services him open the package for him, and he seems reluctant to use tools (like a knife to open a package, if I remember correctly). That is just a vague impression from reading it a few years ago. I will have the text in my hands again in about two weeks to re-read it. Those abos are everywhere. Marc Aramini

Jerry Friedman02 May 2002, 21:54original as archived

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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 doesn't anyone think that the officer reading the repot is an abo? He makes that women who services him open the package for him, and he seems reluctant to use tools (like a knife to open a package, if I remember correctly). That is just a vague impression from reading it a few years ago. I will have the text in my hands again in about two weeks to re-read it. Those abos are 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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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes02 May 2002, 22:10original as archived

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Jerry Friedman writes:

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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.

Assume that the officer is Annese. Assume that the Annese not only are clumsy with tools (like knives), but are clumsy in a particular way. Then cutting a page himself, and comparing it to how the pages already cut appear, may be a way for him to determine (to, at least, his own satisfaction) whether they were cut by a human or by an abo...

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