(urth) Patera Incus
Gerry Quinn
gerryq at indigo.ie
Sun Aug 15 03:18:17 PDT 2010
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com>
> 1. Why Patera Inucus is a woman...
> 1.1.2 Second Attempt. This time Incus disguises his handwriting.
> "You know, my friend, yet it might be more thoughtully be said that you
> cannot know, how much I have been looking forward to a _plain firsthand
> account_ of the marvelous adventures of our mutual acquaintance Bee. Bee
> himself.
>
> Incus thinks, "No, it would not do. Fulmar would be utterly thrown off the
> scent by _the male pronoun_." [emphasis mine]
>
> Question how does the male pronoun throw Fulmar "off the scent"? Off the
> scent of what?
Of who "Bee" is, surely? Wasn't it short for a female's name, somebody
other than Incus, who had reprogrammed the valet chem?
Still, you make some interesting points. Maybe he is after all a woman in
disguise.
- Gerry Quinn
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