# Digest whorl.v011.n034 *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 02 Sep 2000* > 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. --- ### David Langford *02 Sep 2000, 08:44* > "Christoph Mnemonic" wrote: > Judging by the danger and said low success rate, I think that > inhumu must be able to obtain enough blood and be able to breed on both > plants. This is something that Wolfe briefly discussed when answering questions from this list back in 1997: "[...] the inhumi. They are fundamentally from Green, which is where they can reproduce ... on Blue they are tourists." Dave David Langford ansible at cix.co.uk | http://www.ansible.co.uk/ *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Endymion9 *03 Sep 2000, 01:16 · follows David Langford* ansible at cix.co.uk (David Langford) scribbed: > "Christoph Mnemonic" wrote: >> Judging by the danger and said low success rate, I think that >> inhumu must be able to obtain enough blood and be able to breed on both >> plants. > This is something that Wolfe briefly discussed when answering questions > from this list back in 1997: > > "[...] the inhumi. They are fundamentally from Green, which is where they > can reproduce ... on Blue they are tourists." Further evidence of no Blue breeding. OBW p.126 "Would it be effective for us to dig up one of the recent inhumations and release him to warn the others? The thought recurs. If the inhumas' eggs hatched in our climate, would not our human kind become extinct? What tricks Nature plays! If they are natural creatures at all. But they surely are. Natural creatures native to Green. Why would the Neighbors create something so malign?" Does this imply the eggs can be produced on Blue but will not hatch? Dennis/Endy http://home.mindspring.com/~endymion9/index.htm *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---