(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[brunians at brunians.org]

Like he says.

.


> Aww... you're spoiling all the fun!
>
> As for Hethor, I'd think he'd want a lighter sex bot (genicon, he says)
> than a chem while frolicking in bed. Someone he could overpower easily,
> should it come to that.
>
> Have you any thoughts as to whether we should be looking for the genicon
> from the lemon-wood box in the text?
>
> If yes, where to look? I'm following the clues, and they keep leading me
> to Agia. That's all I'm saying.
>
> ...ryan
>
>
>
> On Jun 18, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Roy C. Lackey wrote:
>
>> I have found that facts seldom get in the way of fancied theories, but
>> here
>> are a few.
>>
>> Male chems (soldiers like Hammerstone) are taller, heavier than fem
>> chems,
>> and 5.25 times stronger. (That number comes from Marble, CALDE, chap. 8,
>> p-284.) Silk said that she was too heavy for him to lift (ibid., chap.
>> 4,
>> p-131).
>>
>> Chems don't eat or drink. Severian pushed Agia into a chair when she had
>> a
>> belly full of wine (SHADOW, chap. XXV). He also slapped her down, "My
>> hand
>> caught her just below the ear and she went sprawling, . .  . " (ibid.,
>> chap.
>> XXVII). He easily overpowered her outside the mine of the man-apes and
>> lifted her off her feet by her hair (CLAW, chap. VII). There is no way
>> for
>> Agia to be a chem. Agilus's execution speaks for itself, as others have
>> pointed out.
>>
>> Jonas was not a chem. Sev picked him up in the Antechamber: "I carried
>> him
>> back (finding him astonishingly light) and when I . . ." (CLAW, chap.
>> XVI).
>> Silk and Sev were both young, strong lads.
>>
>> Inire interrogated Agia and put her in command of Vodalus's rebels
>> (CITADEL,
>> chap. XXXV). I think that he, as a hierodule, could tell a doll from a
>> robot
>> from a human woman. A woman is what he called her in his letter.
>>
>> -Roy
>
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