(urth) The Katharine maid

Mark Millman millman at heimdallr.dyndns.org
Fri Oct 27 09:30:34 PDT 2006


Dear Mr. Wilson:

Thanks for playing devil's advocate.  It still seems
pretty unlikely, either as a practical matter within
the story or thematically from a critical viewpoint.

Best,

Mark Millman


On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Jeff Wilson wrote:

> If the Masters use a machine to make
> an eidolon to serve as Holy Katharine,
> they could plausibly use a machine to
> make an eidolon to serve as a cook or
> a menial laborer. However, unlike
> Holy Katharine's one-day-a-year exis-
> tence, Brother Porter and especially
> Brother Cook may be post-eidolons,
> having consumed enough independent
> substance.
>
> --
> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
> < http://www.io.com/~jwilson >
>
>
> [previously,] Mark Millman wrote:
>
> > I don't think that the eidolon
> > technology is as widespread as
> > the deliberate creation of ser-
> > vants, which it seems to me
> > you're implictly proposing,
> > would suggest.  If I've misun-
> > derstood, and you're saying
> > that Severian's interactions
> > with Brother Cook and Brother
> > Porter are so important that
> > the men are recreated from his
> > memory for his benefit, then
> > I'd be very interested in your
> > reasoning.




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