Multi Limbs

Brian Lovely · 05 May 2009, 13:11 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: brian at studiobl.com (Brian Lovely)
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:11:12 -0400
Subject: (urth) Multi Limbs
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Some more thoughts about Neighbors, domes and blood.  If the domes are
greenhouses, it seems strange that the one Horn and Seawrack find has no old
growth in it.  Where did the plants go?  Were they removed for the purpose
for which they were grown?  The glass of the domes intensifies light, which
I have interpreted as meaning that the domes are greenhouses.  Seawrack says
she has seen structures similar to the ruined one she and Horn find on the
weed island.  If they are just shelters, maybe the light intensification is
to allow sunlight into an undersea dome.

As to the Neighbors hiding in animals, I think maybe the Neighbors used the
Marc's eat/spit out hybrid behavior of the trees to create animals capable
of hosting them.  

What's up with blood?  We know that Wolfe uses blood transfer as a mechanism
of personality/physical attribute transfer.  Why does Seawrack react at the
mention of blood sharing?  I just re-read the encounter with He-pen-sheep in
the Land of Fires.  When He-pen-sheep says he shared blood with a shearbear,
Seawrack reacts with surprise/shock.  This happens again in Pajarocu.  Was
Seawrack transformed from a vanilla human to a siren through some blood
transfer mechanism?  The Mother likely made her a siren in the first place.
Could the Mother have altered the Neighbors so that they could escape the
Inhumi?

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