# How much of a fake IS the green man? *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 17 Jan 2011* > 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. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *17 Jan 2011, 16:39* > Jerry Friedman wrote: > Do we know that the green people or their creators share the Author's views > of respect toward the Creator? Do we even know that there are "green people?" We only see one, and have to take the word of a self-confessed liar that he is one of a race of green people. ``` Dan'l Danehy-Oakes ``` --- ### Jerry Friedman *17 Jan 2011, 17:07 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* > From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes > Jerry Friedman wrote: >> Do we know that the green people or their creators share the Author's views >> of respect toward the Creator? > Do we even know that there are "green people?" We only see one, and > have to take the word of a self-confessed liar that he is one of a > race of green people. "'They caught a green man, do you know that? Got him right over there where you see the tent. Green men know everything, people say, if you can but make them talk.'" TCotC Ch. III. To argue that there's no race of green people, I suppose you could say that the creators of the green man took advantage of a superstition (which could even be based on a prophecy of the New Sun), or that the old woman is repeating a rumor that started as the showman's advertising. Or maybe other possibilities that I'm missing. Jerry Friedman --- ### Jeff Wilson *17 Jan 2011, 17:50 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* > On 1/17/2011 10:39 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: > Jerry Friedman wrote: >> Do we know that the green people or their creators share the Author's views >> of respect toward the Creator? > Do we even know that there are "green people?" We only see one, and > have to take the word of a self-confessed liar that he is one of a > race of green people. No only his word; the tea seller at Saltus Fair says, "'They caught a green man, do you know that? Got him right over there where you see the tent. Green men know everything, people say, if you can but make them talk.'" Of course, this could be merely hearsay circulated by the exhibitor for the occasion. :) ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL > ``` ---