(urth) Agilus and Agia

[David Stockhoff]

Who knows how much Inire has to do with the seraglio and the women held 
there, but if he does, there's a parallel to Doctor Crane, who 
presumably would have used a vaginal speculum quite a bit. And this is 
probably taking the wordplay too far, but I have to note this from the wiki:

A vaginal speculum is also used in fertility treatments, particularly 
artificial insemination, and allows the vaginal cavity to be opened and 
observed thereby facilitating the deposit of semen into the vagina.

So, hmm. We have no details on the methods of cloning (or half-cloning, 
as Thomas suggests?) used by the Commonwealth.

On 5/4/2013 1:36 AM, aaron wrote:
> I won't claim that I was implying anything with the word specula,,, 
> but who knows if Wolfe was?
>
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:severiansola at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     >Jeff Wilson: I can buy Rudesind being Fechin, or at least having
>     >taken Fechin's identity. But I don't recall Fechin being old,
>
>     Well, if he is really an immortal, shapeshifting alien then the
>     human concept of "age" doesn't really apply.
>
>     But presented as a standard BotNS character, Fechin should be old
>     as are his contemporaries, such as Rudesind, the old person in
>     Casdoe's
>     house, and (I think) the old boatman. We are never actually told that
>     Fechin died....
>
>     >and a handsome teenage boy gaining carnal knowledge of a teenage girl
>     >hardly sets him apart.
>
>     Actually, I question the handsomeness. It doesn't seem to go
>     easily with
>     long, hairy, monkey-like arms. I suspect we are meant to
>     understand the
>     handsomeness is in the eye of the beholder and storyteller here.
>
>     But I kinda go along with somebody's (Borski?) idea that the teen girl
>     Fechin seduces is Dorcas. That's probably an unnatural stretch but not
>     so much for me if Fechin=the old boatman=Rudesind=Inire.
>
>     >I see no paint unless that's a palette in the subject's right
>     hand, but is
>     >there a black cat at the top left? And other figurines on the
>     fireplace
>     >mantle?
>
>     Well, I picked that younger self-portrait by Nicolai Fechin
>     because it shows
>     his hair to be a bit more red. This more famous, older
>     self-portrait does
>     show him holding a paintbrush.
>     http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-shcjDerM3oE/USlESDOGOmI/AAAAAAAAPQM/V0-0es69axU/s1600/fechin+self+portrait2.jpg
>
>     Perhaps the paintbrushes in the painting of Rudesind by Fechin
>     were not
>     meant to signify a self-portrait and were just a bit of literary
>     decoration.
>     But it is fun to consider they might represent a clever puzzle piece.
>
>     >aaron: In-EAR-ay, huh?  Makes sense.  The meaning of the name's
>     source being
>     >entrance seems to jive with Inire's overall agenda, as well.  He does
>     >create entrances with the specula using some arcane method or
>     other.  Good
>     >stuff.
>
>     Yikes! Specula is the latin word for mirrors but were you implying
>     word play
>     with the gynecological speculum? That's a tool which both
>     functions to enter
>     open and as a mirror. What IS that naughty Father Inire really up to?
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