# Divine Silk and Pas (spoilers) (more on memory) *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 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'l Danehy-Oakes *21 Feb 2001, 13:33* > The inhuma drinks blood, develops an egg with a supply > enclosed, and lays it in the water. The mind comes from > the blood by the chemical transfer of memories, as in the > Book of the New Sun. Good lord! I can't believe I forgot to bring the alzabo (both animal and analeptic) into that discussion! Good on ya, SpecBear, *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---