(urth) Brother Cook and Brother Porter: Robots or Crappy Torturers?

[Jeff Wilson]

On 7/4/2010 6:31 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> They could also just be titles---whoever is the cook is Brother Cook.

Brother Cook doesn't even do all the cooking, though. "Soon there is 
scrubbing and kitchen work. Brother Cook performs such cooking as might 
be interesting or pleasurable, and the apprentice is left to pare 
vegetables, serve the journeymen, and carry an endless succession of 
stacks of trays down the stairs to the oubliette."

And Brother Porter is *old*. "But, oh, how much it cost me to walk past 
the open tower door and looking out see the corpse door in the curtain 
wall, and old Brother Porter lounging there."

Looking back over Severian's elevation, I think it might be that they 
declined the fuligin but asked to remain and serve the Order.

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