(urth) Is Agia a robot?

[David Stockhoff]

I'm a little baffled by this. Of course there is a natural explanation 
for the aureole---what would you expect?

Perhaps "At that moment I realized that Agia and Agilus were holy in 
their unity, because they wore a halo like that of the saints in my 
little book. They were like gods. I kneeled to them and prayed and said 
a few Hail Maries for good measure"?

Does Severian also describe every natural phenomenon he sees?

"Chapter XVII: The sky seemed to be releasing a liquid very much like 
water. Was it in fact rain?"

"Chapter XXI: The sun covered the ground with a substance very much like 
the light I used to see during the day when I was a boy."

"Chapter XXII: The substance I breathed into my lungs as I walked to 
Saltus seemed like a familiar mix of breathable gases."

I could go on.

Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> Or the aureole of light which surrounded Agia and Agilus's joined
>> heads when Severian barged in on them laying naked together
>> face-to-face?
>>
>> "Inside a naked man lay upon straw. A chain ran from the iron collar
>> bout his neck to the wall. A woman, naked too, bent over him, her
>> long, brown hair falling past her face and his so that it seemed to
>> unite them."
>>
>> "He stared at his hands, slender and rather soft, where they lay in
> > the narrow beam of sunlight that had given his head, and Agia's, an
> > aureole a few moments before."
>
> The aureaole is the scattering of the bright sunlight by someone's 
> backlit hair, giving a halo effect. Here is a similar effect with a 
> kitty:
>
> http://media.photobucket.com/image/backlit%20afro/caitlinjean/backlit-1.jpg 
>
>
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/29jlag7
>
>