(urth) Breakfast with Apheta

[brunians at brunians.org]

> Well, they do ostensibly have some surplus autarch testicles lying
> around...
> Which incidentally brings up an interesting inconsistency:  if I remember
> correctly, the reason given for the castration of Epitome candidates is to
> prevent them from forming dynasties, but this measure would clearly not
> work
> for the majority of autarchs who apparently never even went to Yesod.
> (Severian seems to have trouble recalling others besides Ymar and his
> predecessor)
> It's an odd rule to apply to a minor, and perhaps better, part of the
> pool.
> Nevertheless, there don't seem to be dynasties anyway.

OK son, take the little knife and break Daddy's skull open....



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