(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[António Pedro Marques]

Ryan Dunn wrote (18-06-2010 16:44):
> ...
> "Women and tailors hold the blade beneath the hand, according to the
> proverb, but Agia stabbed up to open the tripes and catch the heart from
> below, like an accomplished assassin. I turned only just in time to
> block her blade with the shutter, and the point drove through the wood to
> show a glint of steel. The very strength of her blow betrayed her."
>
> (Severian on Agia in SotL, Chap. 15, He Is Ahead of You!)
>
> .
>
> The strength betrayed what? That she was not a woman?

Not necessarily - 'betrayed' as in the way something you rely on ends up
being counterproductive. In this case, putting her in a disavatageous 
position. Well, I supoose that's a possible reading, at least. I don't know, 
I'm no anglo.