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The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 28 Jun 2000
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Jim Jordan — 28 Jun 2000, 16:26

For you Crowley experts:

	Dumb me, no doubt, but a mystery left in my mind from Engine Summer is
that the people never seem to eat any food and seem to be sustained
entirely on St. Bea's Bread smoke. Okay, okay, allusions to marijuana
maybe. But as this is an SF tale, something other than magic must be at
work. Rush and his buddy seem to last a whole winter with no food, in a
trance. 
	I'm sure someone has this figured out. So do me a favor, whydoncha, and
lemme in on the answer.

Nutria

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Michael Andre-Driussi — 28 Jun 2000, 15:01
  follows, by subject match Jim Jordan

> For you Crowley experts:
> 
> Dumb me, no doubt, but a mystery left in my mind from Engine Summer is
> that the people never seem to eat any food and seem to be sustained
> entirely on St. Bea's Bread smoke. Okay, okay, allusions to marijuana
> maybe. But as this is an SF tale, something other than magic must be at
> work. Rush and his buddy seem to last a whole winter with no food, in a
> trance.
> I'm sure someone has this figured out. So do me a favor, whydoncha, and
> lemme in on the answer.

Not that this is a final answer, of course, bfwiw I thought the allusion
was to hashish rather than marijuana.  And "hash" is the name of a
foodstuff, too.

As for the sfnal rational, the stuff was brought back by an interstellar
probe.  Like you said before, mana from heaven.

The winter they spent in a trance, that was due to a different substance,
wasn't it?  (Probably one of the daughters of medicine: those four little
pots.  One was birth allowance, one was lighten the load, one was near
immortality)  Because the St. Bea's Bread was something they smoked three
or four times a day, no big deal; but that winter in the treehouse was
something different for Rush That Speaks, iirc.

Go Ask Alice, I think she knows.

=mantis=

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