(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[Jerry Friedman]

I think we're to think that she's of Far Eastern and European ancestry, or whatever the equivalents are in that previous universe.

People were talking as if she were Asian.  I pointed out that she has other ancestry as well.  I could have been clearer.

Jerry Friedman



----- Original Message ----
From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>

Elsewhere, Severian refers to her eyes as "slanting." What else are we to think?

Ryan Dunn wrote:
> ... and with those "strangely tilted eyes." A remnant of her former paracoital genicon self?
> 
> :)
> 
> ...ryan
> 
> On Jun 19, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> They're not all that Asian in appearance.  Agia has "brown hair" (/SotT/ Ch. XXI, referred to elsewhere too, I think) and "fair skin and freckles" (/SotL/ Ch. XXVIII, in a brief mention for comparison with Pia).
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