lupine intention

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 06 Jan 2011, 21:50 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 13:50:15 -0800
Subject: (urth) lupine intention
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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> As I said before, even if we adopt your principle, I think that's a matter
> of taste.? What's creepier--that there are aliens on a planet who
> successfully imitate humans, or that there are only humans on a planet but
> some of them believe that the other people there are aliens, and we readers
> have been tricked into accepting insanity as reality?? Or that all the
> sentient beings on the planet are aliens fooling each other, or that there
> are humans there accepting aliens as humans?

And let us not forget: on an alien planet humans _are_ the aliens. I
think that's a theme lurking in the background, amongst the
colonial/postcolonial concepts.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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