Tzadkiel/Melek Taus

John Watkins · 09 Jul 2010, 22:08 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 18:08:18 -0400
Subject: (urth) Tzadkiel/Melek Taus
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On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:

> John Watkins wrote:
> > I conceed that I misremembered the passage and forgot that the Ushas
> people
> > were descended from the sailors.  That said, it isn't clear to me that
> this
> > is inconsistent with my hypothesis--Severian knows about "a man and
> woman,"
> > not a general decamping of the humans on the Ship.  Maybe the humans from
> > the Ship were screened genetically?
>
> I guess you could say that running away is a survival trait that could be
> passed on, but I don't think that's what you had in mind with genetic
> screening. <g>
>
>
I meant "not part cacogen or two generations north of man-ape or whatever."
Pure human.



>  -Roy
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