# urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 12, Issue 18 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 19 Aug 2005* > 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. --- ### Dan *19 Aug 2005, 00:28* > At 02:03 PM 8/18/2005, you wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:06:29 -0700 > From: > Subject: Re: (urth) Travelin' Jahlee > To: "The Urth Mailing List" > Message-ID: <20050818030632.B6CC933C58 at mailserver5.hushmail.com> > > > Objections: > > I think that the Crossing may be more of a rite of passage... If > competition is such a big problem, would it not > also apply to other kinds of prey - so that Blue becomes an > attractive hunting ground, with or without humans? That's what I always thought. With the massive and monstrous predators on Green, it always seemed that the dangerous trip to Blue would be worth it even before the humans arrived. > Jahlee's comments about being just a little girl when she was "put > on the lander" on Green: I don't mind sticking with my original > reading, that she's just pretending here. I can't recall, was the lander at Pajarocu Auk's? Or was his the one Horn ended up in on Green? > I can see what you mean with this, but the ending of RTTW is to me > more triumphant & less elegaic than Ulysses. I take away an image > of Silkhorn sailing thru the galaxy spreading justice & good stuff, > not going to meet some heroic end. No, that's what would have happened if they had stayed, if by "heroic end" you mean being assassinated or martyred. A. ---