<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Ryan Dunn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryan@liftingfaces.com">ryan@liftingfaces.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Jan 20, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:<br>
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>> Agreed.<br>
>> Sure, I suppose I can swallow the asian androgeny bit. Severian describes her eyes as "strangely tilted" and her nose as upturned.<br>
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> upturned doesn't sound asian, more scandian<br>
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AGIA DESCRIPTIONS:<br>
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"With her upturned nose and strangely tilted eyes, she looked so much like her brother I felt sure they were twins, but the slender figure and delicate features that seemed incongruent in him were compelling in her."<br>
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"Of average height, with a short nose, wide cheekbones, and the elongated brown eyes that often accompany them."<br>
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"Her voice was much deeper than I had expected."<br>
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"... wide, flat cheeks and softly rounded chin, freckled, sun-browned skin and long, laughing, mocking eyes."<br>
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Seems like she is definitely Asian looking, laughing, mocking eyes, elongated, strangely tilted, with wide, flat cheekbones and delicate features.<br>
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Also, what's up with the deep voice, and similar physique to her brother? Is this a man in drag or something?<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>When I originally read the passage of Agia's description I associated her features to the indigenous people of Argentina as some groups have slanted eyes and wide cheekbones. I also noticed that it mentioned "sun-browned skin". It seems unlikely that the dwindling sun can make a person brown if (1) the person has a complexion type that browns easily or (2) the person has already brownish skin.<br>
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