Eidolon or Aquastor?
The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 03 Dec 2008
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O'Donnell, Tim BOSI — 03 Dec 2008, 12:02

Hi Son of Witz,

I don't think there is a strong difference between them at all.

Mantis came up with a useful (to me anyway) rule of thumb a while back.

"Wolfe uses (or seems to use) "aquastor" and "eidolon" interchangeably. 
However, at times in the past when I was trying to ferret out the different forms of "ghosts" involved (i.e., hair-splitting) 
I leaned on "aquastor" as being (1) machine generated (as opposed to biological mind generated), 
(2) having physical presence; 
leaving "eidolons" to be the (1) non-physical, beamed directly into the brain, seen by nobody else forms." 
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0009/0739.shtml


To be honest, I think the difference is akin to explaining the difference between a "ghoul" and a "ghost" to someone.
(Nitpickers have at it, I haven't checked my OED so there could be a distinct difference between the two!)

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brunians at brunians.org — 03 Dec 2008, 12:23
  in reply to O'Donnell, Tim BOSI

> To be honest, I think the difference is akin to explaining the difference
> between a "ghoul" and a "ghost" to someone.

A ghost is a remnant of a dead entity, normally a person.

A ghoul is a creature that eats the bodies of the dead. It may or may not
have been a living person at some point.

That said, I agree with you that Wolfe is using eidolon and aquastor
interchangeably.




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O'Donnell, Tim BOSI — 03 Dec 2008, 16:24
  follows, by subject match brunians at brunians.org

Hahaha, Brilliant!

Thanks Brunians!

Man, I think Ghoul is going to be one my new favourite words.

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