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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A title=crushtv@gmail.com
href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">James Wynn</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face=Arial>>> I don't see what the
gender of either chem has to do with anything.</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR>> Me neither. When Incus writes "our friend Bee. Bee himself." and
then decides "Fulmar would be utterly thrown off the scent by <SPAN
class=moz-txt-underscore><SPAN class=moz-txt-tag>_</SPAN>the male pronoun<SPAN
class=moz-txt-tag>_</SPAN></SPAN>", he is not referring to the sex of any chem.
But there is no reference to Bittersweet in the first email.<BR><FONT size=2
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>>> The message was: "I can't make it tonight." The rest
is chit-chat. </FONT></FONT></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>> Why not just say, "I can't make it tonight due to Chapter duties"? Why
reference Bittersweet at all? Once again, there is no mention of Bittersweet in
the first email. Yet it was considered riskier than the second where you suppose
Incus is employing a code name for Bittersweet. <BR></DIV>
<DIV>The first letter contained details of his mission: "I am to go to Limna
tonight... to consort with fishermen in search of a woman". That would
completely identify him if intercepted, and his calling Remora an old fool
elsewhere in it would probably not help his case.<BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>> Incus is attempting to reveal herself to Fulmar, "my dear friend".
It seems, she is in love and knows the relationship will not progress as long as
Fulmar continues to consider it fraternal. (It's not "Victor Victoria", it's
"Yentl".)<BR></DIV>
<DIV>It may be so.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>> She wants to impart the information in a way that Fulmar will come
to the conclusion himself. She is afraid of shocking him.<BR><BR>> It's
interesting to me that you presume the letters have to do with a desire to see
Bittersweet's demonstration. In my experience, most readers think Incus is
attempting to reveal a homosexual love for Fulmar. I hope I at least shown that
that is not likely. <BR><BR>Well, if Incus is in love with Fulmar, whether it is
a homosexual or heterosexual love depends mainly on what Incus has under his
robe, about which we can really only speculate! For the record though, I
think your theory that Incus is a woman is somewhat plausible,
but I wouldn't discount the possibility that he is a man.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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