# Inhumi as mirror-images of vampires *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 18 Feb 2001* > 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 Rabin *18 Feb 2001, 21:37* The nature of the inhumi may be one of Wolfe's trademark reversals. Dracula-type vampires are ex-humans, and by preying on living humans, make them vampires. Inhumi are aspiring humans, and by preying on living humans, try to become human themselves. Having inhumi reflect vampires may be a little joke, since mirrors don't. -- Dan Rabin *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---