# St. Anne and the Inhumi *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 08 Apr 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *08 Apr 1999, 13:26* Seeing as there's recently been discussion on this site about the nature of the Annese and their possible connection with Urth, Green, etc., I'd like to pose to everyone a question that seems to me to strike to the thematic heart of the matter: Given that 5HC is centrally concerned with the sinister effects of colonialism on the colonizers and the colonized, and that the inhumi in TBotLS inhabit a solar system about to be colonized, like St. Anne, by humans, shouldn't we regard Quetzal and his compatriots as victims of invasion, rather than as vampires, or soulless beings like the Ascians? Isn't it possible that the major surprise of The Book of the Short Sun will be exactly this, that the aliens have the just claim to our sympathy, and the humans are the transgressors? //-------------------------------------- Nicholas Gevers potto at webmail.co.za ---