Long Sun Laughs

Craig Brewer · 21 Jan 2009, 21:00 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: cnbrewer at yahoo.com (Craig Brewer)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:00:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Long Sun Laughs
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Potential Short Sun spoilers, but...

A thriving colony or real, happy humans could make sense if the inhumi really did want to live and experience and feel like humans do. Some may just want to feed. Others (Jahlee) actually want to be loved. Someone like Quetzal who had lived with humans for so long might well have wanted to try to become as human as possible. That goes along with the "partially good inhumi" theories that got bandied about a lot earlier in the threads.

Just speculation, though. I don't recall anywhere in the text that actually makes that case.

----- Original Message ----
From: Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:47:51 PM
Subject: Re: (urth) Long Sun Laughs

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Thornton [mailto:adam at io.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:42 PM
>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: (urth) Long Sun Laughs
>
>
>On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Dave Tallman wrote:
>
>> He said that Quetzal wanted a "thriving human colony on  
>> Green" (which almost seems like a contradiction in terms to me).
>
>A stockyard could be considered a thriving colony of cattle.
>
>Adam

Exactly. When I read that I felt it did not invalidate the idea that he was providing a food source.  Not having read much of short sun, it already has been suggested that there WAS a previous population on Blue.

I hope the leftover fish I'm about to lunch on isn't a thriving colony.

~witz

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