Shaving Clones

Stanisław Bocian · 25 Jun 2005, 12:34 · from 2005-June.txt.gz

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From: sbocian at poczta.fm (=?Windows-1250?B?U3Rhbmlzs2F3IEJvY2lhbg==?=)
Date: Sat Jun 25 12:34:08 2005
Subject: (urth) Shaving Clones
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Saturday, June 25, 2005, 8:44:53 PM, James Wynn wrote:

JW> It is not self-evident that Tussah is a clone of Typhon,
JW> and many (possibly most) readers find nothing askance in Tussah's "son not
JW> of my body" declaration. 

JW> So, naturally, the most reasonable assumption for those is that a rather
JW> incestuous "clone theory" (there's Severian and his grandmother again)
JW> is a cop-out...that I devised a curly-whorly yarn out of Himalayan thin air
JW> rather than carefully examine the text of the books for Wolfe's true
JW> intent. The opposite is true, but if one sees nothing wrong with Tussah's
JW> "son" declaration, then he is never going to abandon the "spiritual son of
JW> Tussah" reading regardless of how cozily I can show that an alternate
JW> reading fits the story and that the "obvious" reading does not. 

I must note that implanting an embryo which is genetically not related
neither to mother not to father is perhaps rare, but it is a really
happening infertility treatment. If you maintain that implanted
genetically uncognate embryo cannot be someone's son, and if this is
the whole argument, it seems to me rather weak.

-- 
    Stanis³aw Bocian

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