(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[brunians at brunians.org]

I think this is exactly correct.

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> I agree. I was just saying the behavior and appearance of the poppet are
> completely different from the behavior and appearance of Agia. I think
> all this can be accounted for without violating anything we know about
> Urth. Stretching it, maybe, when I propose a ruthless "facedancer"
> ship's robot in a woman's skin.
>
> Ryan Dunn wrote:
>> Let me try this from a different angle. The amount of detail and
>> description Hethor (and Severian (and Wolfe)) give regarding this
>> missing poppet obviously feels like the reader should take note, and try
>> to see if the mystery can be solved.
>>
>> Right?
>>
>> If not Agia, who else might this missing woman be?
>>
>> Or is this story a foreshadowing of the monsters Hethor will later let
>> loose?
>>
>> ...ryan
>>
>>
>> On Jun 18, 2010, at 2:57 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Well, that sounds like a very feminine revenge plot, or like a woman
>>> who actually feels something for Hethor. I don't think so. I see Agia
>>> as having been homicidal and power-hungry for a long time, regardless
>>> of her physical makeup.
>>>
>>> Here's a thought---would Agia-as-robot have any such human feelings?
>>> Does she feel love for Agilus? The halo scene suggests so. I don't know
>>> whether the gnostic twincestuous god-rulers scheme requires love or
>>> even allows it, or if it matters. (It does in the pieces of gnosticism
>>> that survived as alchemy.) I ask because it's possible that the love
>>> between A/A is real and that it is actually holy in the God-is-love
>>> sense---a bit of the Outsider leaking in.
>>>
>>> Another thought: did Agia land, escape, and find Agilus? Or is Urth and
>>> Agilus her home base? Would it be possible, given what we know of time
>>> travel in the Urth universe, for a twin pair to stay close in age if
>>> they want to, when one is a star sailor and would stay young? Probably,
>>> since she can reverse direction and return to him.
>>>
>>> If Agia is a robot, that problem goes away, as she can always look like
>>> Agilus at any age. But she can still sign onto ships that take her back
>>> to when Agilus is alive---she could be physically younger than Agilus,
>>> or could spend decades with Agilus in the process of living hundreds of
>>> years to his thirty or so.
>>>
>>> Stop me if I'm starting to sound as crazy as the rest of you.
>>>
>>
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