<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Andrew Mason <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.mason53@googlemail.com">andrew.mason53@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Also. Severian dreams of a ritual taking place in the Citadel chapel<br>
at a time before the old sun was darkened, which invoves bread, wine<br>
and a knife - not exactly the Christian eucharist, but something like<br>
it.<br></blockquote></div><br>In the Eastern Orthodox liturgy, the (leavened) bread used in Communion is cut with a triangular-bladed knife, referred to as the Spear.<br><br>-- <br>Matt +<br><br>It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.<br>
Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.), Epistles, bk. III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 B.C.], l. 25<br><br>