(urth) Breakfast with Apheta

[John Watkins]

I took is as explicitly not a Eucharist.  Cake contrasts with bread,
water contrasts with wine, God only knows what the "milky fluid" was.

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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