grumble at wolfe comment made attached to guardianarticle

James Wynn · 08 Feb 2011, 17:50 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:50:21 -0600
Subject: (urth) grumble at wolfe comment made attached to guardianarticle
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This quote only says the Neighbors were infected humanity with inhumi. 
It doesn't say they brought them on the Whorl. That's one way they could 
have done it--if beings who can dream-travel would have their own 
spaceships and if the Whorl would allow an alien spacecraft to dock. 
This quote could be also interpreted as "They supported the Plan of Pas 
to bring humanity to Green." This quote is a gold coin in the bucket--it 
tells us about the Neighbor's motives--it doesn't explain how and when 
they accomplished it. Anyone got any more evidence?

>> So...how DID Quetzal get aboard the Whorl????
>
> The Neighbours brought inhumi to the Whorl.  We are told in Chapter 11 
> of _Return to the Whorl_:
> ***********************************************
> Then, "Sometime back like you I go, mysire?"
> "Back to Viron, you mean, Vadsig?"
> "To Viron, yes, mysire. Also to Grotestad. To go to the Long Sun Whorl 
> I would like. Always of it you talk, and cook, and my old master and 
> mistress. In Grotestad they were born, mysire, but never it I have seen."
> I told her it was possible she would.
> "There the Vanished People went?"
> I nodded.
> "To greet us it was?"
> "You might put it so, though they were sensible enough to find out a 
> good deal about us - and infect us with inhumi -"
> *************************************************

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