(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[brunians at brunians.org]

What color are Agia's eyes?

Are her hands ever mentioned?

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> "M-m-master, when I was on the Quasar I had a paracoita, a doll, you
> see, a genicon, so beautiful with her great pupils as dark as wells, her
> i-irises purple like asters or pansies blooming in summer, Master, whole
> beds of them, I thought, had b-been gathered to make those eyes, that
> flesh that always felt sun-warmed. Wh-wh-where is she now, my own
> scopolagna, my poppet? Let h-h-hooks be buried in the hands that took
> her! Crush them, Master, beneath stones. Where has she gone from the
> lemon-wood box I made for her, where she never slept at all, for she lay
> with me all night, not in the box, the lemon-wood box where she waited
> all day, watch-and-watch, Master, smiling when I laid her in so she
> might smile when I drew her out. How soft her hands were, her little
> hands. Like d-d-doves. She might have flown with them about the cabin
> had she not chosen instead to lie with me. . . . "
>
>
> genicon
> (Adult / Slang)
> My only source for this word is from K <http://www.definition-of.com/K>.
> S. Daly's * Sex. An Encyclopedia for the Bewildered * (1995): ' A sexual
> partner <http://www.definition-of.com/partner> imagined by a woman
> <http://www.definition-of.com/woman> who is no longer satisfied with her
> real partner <http://www.definition-of.com/partner>.'
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (Noun) also as a succubus-real imagined lover. an hallucinated sexual
> partner
>
> /Scopolagna/: “A woman whose appearance others find stimulating in the
> extreme” (GW).
>
> Doll or robot, this does not sound like Agia to me. But it's impossible
> to say.
>
> As for energy sources, that's an important point. They probably are not
> nuclear (as we know it) or solar (they rest in tunnels).
>
>
> Jerry Friedman wrote:
>> From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>>
>>
>>> I'd read this more as Wolfe musing, "How will I call robots without
>>> sounding like ad copy for a Japanese toy?
>>> Hm, well the inventor of robots called them chemical in nature. This
>>> runs against the cliche. Thus, applying
>>> Brunians' radical principle, I shall call them "chems." "
>>>
>> ....
>>
>> That sounds reasonable to me.  Also, maybe their power source is
>> electrochemical, namely batteries.  Was there ever anything in the Long
>> Sun books about where they get their power, needing to recharge, etc.?
>>
>>
>>> Brunians, where is the line telling us that Hethor digs bots?
>>>
>>
>> Brunians is probably on of the last people in the world I should speak
>> for, but Hethor's lost paracoita is some kind of robot (/Shadow/, Ch.
>> XXX).
>>
>> Jerry Friedman
>>
>>
>>
>>
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