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  "thread": {
    "id": 1523,
    "subject": "Inhumi",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-04-12T13:50:13+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-12T13:50:13+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0025-0057@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-12T13:50:13+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Inhumi",
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          "text": "On Apr 12, 11:27am, David Wells wrote:\nSubject: (urth) RE: Digest urth.v025.n005\nSpeaking of ambiguity, we might remember that the Long Sun books were\nwritten by a colonist (Horn) who may not have been entirely impartial in\nhis portrayal of Quetzal and the inhumi.  Some of the scenes where we get\nthe most characterization of Quetzal must be somewhat speculative\nreconstruction on Horn's part, or at best second or third hand accounts\n(such as the scenes with Quetzal and Remora).\n\nIndeed. At the end of Exodus, Horn describes the inhumi as being\n\"no more intelligent than dogs\". As one of them posed successfully as\na senior clergyman on the Whorl for around 30 years, this is either a\nparticularly biting satire on the clergy (which I rather doubt) or evidence\nthat Horn, at least, is suffering from a seriously misapprehension.\n\n....which apart from any moral dilemmas it may cause, may also lead\nto nasty surprises for the colonists when they try to defend themselves\nagainst an opponent which they so seriously underestimate."
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          "text": "Does Horn actually say that?  I'm reading the lines:  \". . . no more have\ncharacter than a hus; but those who trap hus and tame them have told me that\nthey differ at least as much as dogs.\"  That's the only mention I can find of\ndogs in Horn's defense that's possibly relevant.  I can't imagine Horn making\nthat statement (although it does sound awful familliar) given the portrayal of\nQuetzal in the Book.  Am I missing something?\n\tThe one thing I demand of Short Sun is that Wolfe better give me some\nidea about how Quetzal got on board, why he acted as he did, and whether he was\ntrying to get everyone killed by choosing Green...  Since he's admitted that\nyou can't really figure it all out from Long Sun."
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          "text": "\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.\" - John 8:32\n--\nAlex David Groce (adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu)\nSenior (Computer Science/Multidisciplinary Studies in Technology & Fiction)\n'98-99 NCSU AITP Student Chapter President\n608 Charleston Road, Apt. 1E (919)-233-7366\nhttp://www4.ncsu.edu/~adgroce"
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