Meanings The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 12 Jan 2011 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5895 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. ============================================================================== 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!!!!!!!!!!! ;- ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Adam Thornton IO — 12 Jan 2011, 20:42 in reply to Lee Berman > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:36:01 -0500, Lee Berman > wrote: > PRINGLES!!!!!!!!!!! ;- ) "You can't eat just one," as the alzabo said to the Vodalarius. Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------