interview questions

Gerry Quinn · 07 Jan 2011, 16:31 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:31:33 -0000
Subject: (urth) interview questions
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Of course, in 5HoC, Wolfe has Marsch refer to the paleolithic pygmies known as the 'Good People' who, he says, are known to have survived in Ireland and Scandinavia until the end of the Eighteenth Century.

It's a theme he has used a lot.

Here, Marsch is trying to explain the absence of abo fossils.  By my reading it is a wrong hypothesis.  Those who think the human/humanoid abos have lived on Sainte Anne for millenia could use it as support against the fossil argument.  If the humanoid abos are new, no explanation is needed for the absence of fossils.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: DAVID STOCKHOFF 

  These ideas keep coming up in Wolfe, but they don't need always to be treated as though they shared the same degree of literalness. The Neighbors may be a form of Star-Shee by analogy only, and the Annese may be another. And still the Shee themselves surely never existed. As humans, we make things up.

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