(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[brunians at brunians.org]

This is a false belief, about the smoothing of the races.

It assumes, as many modern false beliefs do, that history is not cyclical;
tbat humans were smart animals and there weren't many of them for
1,990,000 years, and that in the past ten thousand years we have done all
of this for the first time.

In other words, this is what most of you believe, but it is not what I
believe, and it is not what Gene believes.

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> On 6/19/2010 8:45 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> It doesn't explain the eye color change, though perhaps that is such a
>> minor alteration as to allow us to jettison the "facedancer" technology
>> (she never changes gender either), except for one point. How does she
>> resemble Agilus so closely? Is that just Severian's inability to
>> distinguish Asians? Or is Agilus fresh off the ship too, and Nessus has
>> not seen his kind for millennia? Why do they not have Asian names?
>
> After many chiliads of racial mixing from mechanized travel, there would
> be a  much smoother distribution of "Asian" features. Severian has seen
> many people with broad cheekbones and elongated eyes, at least by the
> time of his writing.
>
>> Who made her? How is she so light and yet so strong? Are those common
>> sex-doll specs?
>
> She's light because she's a slender woman, and Severian has been trained
> to be able to handle even burly men. Her strength comes from her
> determination of purpose and her acquired disregard for human life over
> many con jobs and murders for profit. Was it Severian or Latro who
> discusses learning to overcome the common reluctance to strike another
> person with full force? It's the same thing here.
>
>
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