Losing Imitation

Gerry Quinn · 30 Dec 2010, 03:05 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:05:57 -0000
Subject: (urth) Losing Imitation
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From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com>
>>>> Gerry Quinn-

>>>> (I'm ignoring for the purposes of this point that the Shadow Children 
>>>> are human.
>>>
>>> James Wynn-
>>> If Wolfe is to be credited, they are not.
>>
>> Gerry Quinn-
>> He also said Urth = Green, and look at the trouble THAT'S caused!
>
> It doesn't mean it isn't true. It only means it has not been established 
> HOW it is true. I think it is true. I only doubt that the Blue/Green sun 
> is Urth's Sol.

Completely different planets, completely different biota, completely 
different stars, you get from one to the other in a generation ship...


>> Gerry Quinn-
>> As you say, he made some comment to that effect.  But the book indicates 
>> otherwise, so I tend to believe he misspoke, though I guess theories 
>> about two groups of abos are tenable if one has some reason for believing 
>> that.
>
> There are at least two OTHER groups of abos identified.

True, but the hillmen and marshmen seem to differ culturally, not 
biologically.

> Furthermore we KNOW abos sometimes take the forms of trees if the stories 
> of their reproduction are to be believed. And only a very naive Wolfean 
> reader would think VRT's pussy cat is just a pussy cat.

I don't know about the cat, but I am pretty sure the trees are not abos. 
There is some sexual symbolism / mythology regarding trees, and the abos 
seem to think the trees father children.  Nevertheless male abos exist and 
have sex with females, who bear children as humans do.

> There were multiple groups of humans that came to St A/St C. Why would the 
> abos, so famous for changing their appearance, be in only one form?

They copied the humans who landed first - presumably just one group, 
possibly monoracial.  Abos have both genders and individual appearances.

- Gerry Quinn

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