If everyone on Urth is genetically Severian...

Roy C. Lackey · 01 Jul 2005, 11:30 · from 2005-July.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Fri Jul  1 11:30:12 2005
Subject: (urth) If everyone on Urth is genetically Severian...
Message-ID: <000a01c57e69$76449880$cd3dc6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>

>Sarah Dorrance-Minch wrote:
>
>>does that mean he's his own Grandpa?
>>
>>Sorry. I had to. :)
>
>That's been brought up here before. By me, I'm afraid, a long time ago. But
>at least it didn't involve clones. <g>

I hope my comments weren't misconstrued. I was expressing chagrin over the
theory, which I later recanted. See here:

http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0207/1485.txt.shtml

-Roy

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