(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[Mark Lewin]

... or because they are chemical?


On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:11 PM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

>
> Gene calls robots 'chems'.
>
> Does he call them that because they are mechanical?
>
> .
>
>
> > Agia is definitely a robot, and of a particularly expensive kind. But
> > she was initially human. We can actually pinpoint the moment her
> > robofication begins, when Severian sees her outside the rag shop:
> >
> > She wore a pavonine brocade gown of amazing richness and raggedness,
> > and as I watched her, the sun touched a rent just below her waist,
> > turning the skin there to palest gold.
> > TSOTT, chapter XVI
> >
> > Dorcas is also a robot:
> >
> > 'He wears armor,' Dorcas called again. 'This man has not even a
> > shirt.' Her voice, always so soft before, rang in the twilight like a
> > bell.
> > TSOTT, chapter XXVII
> >
> > Bells are metal, just like hammers. How much more of a clue do you
> > need? Of course, she's also Severian's grandmother so it follows that
> > he is a robot too.
> >
> > Brunians wrote:
> >> She and her brother are associated with Hethor, a sailor.
> >>
> >> They are ship's robots.
> >
> > That must be why all those cogs and wires fell out when Severian cut
> > Agilus's head off.
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