(urth) Breakfast with Apheta

[Gwern Branwen]

On 2008.07.22 17:48:53 -0500, "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> scribbled 0.5K characters:
> On the morning after Severian bedded Apheta, she brought him breakfast on a
> tray. It consisted of "... small cakes, a carafe of cool water, and cups of
> some steaming liquid that looked like milk and yet was not milk." (URTH, XX,
> 146) He ate one of the cakes and drank a cup of the milky fluid, after
> Apheta took a bite of one of the cakes. I think this was the only meal
> Severian mentioned having on Yesod, and I believe there is some significance
> to its components or their combination that eludes me. Any ideas?
>
> -Roy

Is it just me, or do 'small cakes' scream Eucharist to anyone else?

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