<div dir="ltr">It seems that the only way graven could be important here is if the Alzabo was a beast engineered to afford the transference of past lives.<br>-s<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Adam Thornton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam@io.com">adam@io.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""><div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div><div>Here's Wolfe messing with us again.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Of course it's not "graven" that's the key, at least not to anyone but Severian. It's the holographic nature of this memory storage device, and the fact that the analeptic alzabo lets you eat a tiny part of someone's brain and then subsume his or her memories and personality.</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Adam</div></font></div></blockquote></div><br></div>