Merger

Lee Berman · 31 Jan 2011, 03:09 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:09:46 -0500
Subject: (urth) Merger
Message-ID: <SNT123-W63BF2FBE2C054E3C234A96CFE20 at phx.gbl>

>Gerry Quinn: The point is, there must be a reason why the creature is a huge 
>carnivore, perfectly suited to prey on unwilling humans and creatures similar to humans

Far from perfectly suited to hunting humans as the standoff with Severian and its eventual 
death demonstrate. If it had been "smart" it would have stopped with Severa and Becan. I
get the sense their contribution made the alzabo a bit "stupid".

>I agree the alzabo's death was a similar accident - its instincts to preseve 
>its chosen prey from other predators got the better of it.

While other readers recognize Becan's instincts as a partial cause of the alzabo's death
I suppose it make no sense to further debate the point. All salient aspects of the 
discussion have been covered.

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