urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 12, Issue 18
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 19 Aug 2005
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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: <thalassocrat at nym.hush.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Travelin' Jahlee
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net>
> Message-ID: <20050818030632.B6CC933C58 at mailserver5.hushmail.com>
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> 
> 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. 

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