multi-limbs

b sharp · 04 May 2009, 12:18 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: bsharporflat at hotmail.com (b sharp)
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 08:18:52 -0400
Subject: (urth) multi-limbs
Message-ID: <COL109-W58E6EE3210F13E6DCB06B9D7680 at phx.gbl>

FWIW, my impression of the message of multi-limbs on Blue's creatures is the opposite
that some others get. Having four limbs is not a universal ideal or baseline (as our arthropod
cousins show); it is just an evolutionary by-product of the basic earth vertebrate pattern.

So rather than seeing multi-limbs as an alteration, I see them as a way that Wolfe marks
certain creatures on Blue as natives; others are are alien invaders. This could be a
clear message that Blue is not Earth or Urth or Ushas.

Also, I suppose it has been mentioned before but I just re-noticed Wolfe's description of 
Inhumi as not being good with tools.  Add this to their parasitic and mimicking nature and
I think the connection to Shadow Children becomes quite powerful. This might make Fifth Head
of Cerberus a very fruitful place for understanding Inhumi origins and how they think and feel
as they assume a new identity. 

-bsharp
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