(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[David Stockhoff]

But it would be not at all strange for a robot who had to believe she 
was Agilus' sister in order to be Agilus' sister. If she made herself 
like him, curve for curve, color for color, then that is a precise and 
poetic way of stating it---especially from her perspective.

See "Jahlee."


Mo Holkar / UKG wrote:
> At 16:59 18/06/2010, Pedro 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.
>
>
> That is my reading -- because her blow was so strong, her knife got 
> caught in the wood and so Severian was able to wrench it from her 
> grasp. (And I am an anglo :-)
>
> A few paras above this, she says that she and Agilus "were the same 
> flesh", which would be a strange expression for a purported robot -- 
> even a lying one.
>
> Mo
>
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