(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[David Stockhoff]

Possibly. If Sev was then able to disarm her because of that.

António Pedro Marques wrote:
> 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.
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