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I preferred Wolfe's
explanation of how the Alzabo was a metaphor for his former mega-corp employer, Procter and Gamble. For
me that's where the true human understanding of the meaning of the text is found)
Dan'l- Oh, aye. We're in agreement there; I was just tweaking this whole
silly argument about whether there are domes on Lune or what. What
really matters is that Lune stands green in the sky as a symbol of
man's past engineering glory, to which Vodalus foolishly thinks he can
restore the world. It is a doubled symbol of decadance: the
technological decadance that has fallen so far from the ability to do
such things; and the moral decadance that said "just because we can,
we should.".....(Well, maybe the alzabo isn't completely ridiculous: if it isn't a native animal of some far world, but bioengineered by humans to produce the analeptic...)
OMG now, I'm starting to worry about the real effect on my mind of...
PRINGLES!!!!!!!!!!! ;- )