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The question was raised (I don't recall by whom) of how one can see one's dead relatives in Mainframe if most people spend their lives (and deaths) outside the view of Windows, Gla…
27 Jan 1997, 09:45
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In _Calde_, there is a (to me) pivotal scene in which we first learn that Quetzal is an inhumu. This is his meeting with Remora, during which he throws the Chapter onto Silk's sid…
27 Jan 1997, 09:17
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I think Silk's abilities are explicable. He is a genetically engineered natural leader or even superman. This is made fairly explicit in either _Lake_ or _Calde_, in a conversati…
27 Jan 1997, 09:05
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I'm puzzled over the appearance of Patera Pike's "ghost" in _Lake_. Silk hears Pike walking about upstairs, hears his bed creak, and sees him in the bedroom. Then Pike disappears…
23 Jan 1997, 17:05
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A few minutes with the encyclopedia both illuminates and obscures. Silk's cross is referred to as a "gammadion," and as a "voided cross." As it happens, and has been already pointe…
21 Jan 1997, 10:58
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I think this is exactly correct. Quetzal has been among humans for so long that he has begun to care for them. Many of his actions would be the same whether he saw himself as a s…
20 Jan 1997, 09:47
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Finished my second reading of _Exodus_ this weekend. Here are some things that I noted. Towards the end of Exodus, we learn of another victim of the inhumi; a boy called Villus, …
20 Jan 1997, 09:15
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I started rereading "Exodus.." last night, and started with the Dramatis Personae. Sure enough, Teasel's entry says she was attacked by an inhumi. In fact, she's not the only one…
16 Jan 1997, 12:21
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I got the impression that the taluses did not use optical fibers. There are many references to the decline in the chem population over time, and it may be that the skills and mate…
15 Jan 1997, 10:05
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That's very interesting; do we know that Quetzal was getting blood somewhere? I don't remember anything specific to that effect. As I recall, we know fairly early that Quetzal is…
15 Jan 1997, 09:40
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