Quetzal

António Pedro Marques · 17 Jan 2011, 01:44 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?windows-1252?Q?Ant=F3nio_Pedro_Marques?=)
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:44:14 +0000
Subject: (urth) Quetzal
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hammstu at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> How Quetzal got on the Whorl is certainly one of the big unanswered
> questions for me...but didn't someone suggest  that he wanted the Whorl
> to go to Green to be a food source for the Inhumi?? A fully stocked
> fridge ???

Yes, because it's the logical thing to think. But how solidary are the 
inhumi with each other? How could he ever think the people would follow his 
selection after he were exposed? (Remora is an odd case; a man apparently 
unable to decide anything whatsoever by himself.) I guess what I'm asking 
is: why did GW give Quetzal the opportunity to choose the lander's 
destination, what did GW intend us to infer from that choice? (Not that 
Quetzal was an inhumu, we knew that since forever.)

Or could Quetzal intend them for Green but not to be preyed upon? Could he 
have had any other purpose?

Also, one of Quetzal's last victims was aware that he was a vampire (cf. the 
scene at the Calde's palace). What could be the logic in that? Seeing at 
though apprently for decades nobody else knew, and he didn't tell anyone either.

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