second dream team

Dave Tallman · 22 Sep 2008, 12:07 · from 2008-September.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:07:15 -0600
Subject: (urth) second dream team
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Marc,

Your article is fascinating and I agree with nearly all of it except for 
the "Urth is Green" which seems to me a stretch too far. (I know that 
Gene Wolfe once said this, but I believe it was an engineering joke 
about ground wires).

Those who don't accept this part of the theory need an alternate 
explanation for the extreme compatibility of Neighbors/inhumi/Blue life 
with humans. They are blood-eating and soul-copying compatible (inhumi), 
"change-blood" compatible (shearbears), and "hybrid" compatible (Horn as 
a Neighbor-man, whatever that process entails).

Blue or Green being Urth is only one possible explanation. Here are some 
others:

1) Settlement long ago by human colonists using FTL travel. Typhon might 
or might not have known of this, perhaps intending an invasion rather 
than a fresh colony.
2) Time-travel, such that the Neighbors derive from the present Whorl 
colonists.
3) Parallel evolution. The doubled-limbed character of the life forms 
does suggest they are different. Hybridization that doubles genes 
wouldn't automatically double limbs.

> This is probably my article, which M. Wynn was kind enough to host all these years.
>
> http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/chras-writers/marc-aramini1.htm
>
> also, cornsilk is a common phrase which makes the italian near cognate interesting.
>

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