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  "thread": {
    "id": 1508,
    "subject": "Alternate Explainations for the Aborigines of St. Anne",
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    "first": "1999-04-09T20:28:20+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-09T20:28:20+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0025-0038@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mitchell A. Bailey",
        "address": "mab at lindau.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-09T20:28:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Alternate Explainations for the Aborigines of St. Anne",
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          "text": "Re the nature and fate of the St. Anne aborigines, including the Shadow\nChildren, we could argue with nearly equal justice a number of alternate\nscenarios, e.g.:\n\n(1) both races were of native pleiomorphs; an earlier iteration of the\npresumed mass\nmurder/imposture of Veil's Hypothesis having taken place.\n(2) both races were descendants of \"atlanteans\" ; native pleiomorphs\nnever existed or became extinct ages ago.\n(3) the whole notion of ancient colonization by a race from the stars\nwas not \"genuine\" abo lore in the first place, but invented by persons\n(abo or earth-human or crossbreed) since the original French landings,\npossibly by Roy or Victor Trenchard.\n(4) The abos died out sometime soon after the war, due to disease,\nfamine, loss of habitat, or deliberate pogroms by colonists.\n(5) Abos exist, but Shadow Children are altogether figments of abo\nlegend, the leprechauns of the abos, if you will.\n(6) St. Anne harbors no intelligent natives of any sort, period. Reports\nof a native humanoid population in the wilderness could be attributed to\nhuman vagabonds and fugitives, who probably abounded during and just\nafter the war, and various other factors attributable to the strangeness\nof Sainte Anne to the new colonists. Victor is a gifted storyteller\nworking with fiction passed to him by his parents. \n(7) See (6); with the wrinkle that Victor sincerely believes, falsely,\nin his father's lifelong con game, and considers himself a secret,\n'passing' abo. \n(8) Veil's Hypothesis is correct. Every \"human\" residing on St. Anne,\nand now a substantial number of those on St. Croix, are Annese\npretending to be human. The Trenchards are Annese pretending to be\nhumans pretending to be Annese. Victor, then, would be Annese pretending\nto be human pretending to be Annese pretending to be human. \n(9) The abos existed but disappeared as such, not because they died off,\nbut because they all began to \"pass\" as colonists from Earth. Either\nthey live \"among us\", or they did The Veil Thing.\n(10) When the French arrived, there were only the wormy primal\npleiomorphs, no humanoids.\nReports of a drowned humanoid on the beach are erroneous. Since the p's\nhad to react quickly to possible threats, they probably assumed humanoid\nform very shortly after the landing. Before the war, abo-pleiomorphs\nwhich had not perfected their impostures were at large, hence all the\ntales of weird humanoid natives. Their purported culture likewise was\ninvented by imaginative colonists, and sometimes these invented cultures\nwere adopted as fact by unsophisticated true Annese natives. Later, many\nassimilated with the humans... \n\nThese are just what I could come up with in two afternoons.\n\nAnd on it goes. Really and truly Mr. Wolfe has given us a canister of\nliterary Tinkertoys which can be reassembled in nearly any permutation\nto come up with any theory you like."
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