# Meanings

*The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 12 Jan 2011*

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### Lee Berman
*12 Jan 2011, 18:36*

> 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!!!!!!!!!!! ;- )  		 	   		  

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### Adam Thornton IO
*12 Jan 2011, 20:42 · in reply to Lee Berman*

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:36:01 -0500, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> PRINGLES!!!!!!!!!!! ;- )  		 	   		  

"You can't eat just one," as the alzabo said to the Vodalarius.

Adam

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