grumble at wolfe comment made attached to guardianarticle

Marc Aramini · 08 Feb 2011, 18:18 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 10:18:38 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) grumble at wolfe comment made attached to guardianarticle
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sorry for all the typos in the quotes.  Should look back before hitting send.  Anyway, even though it is conceivable to me that some "they" (vanished gods?) brought the inhumi to old Urth as Juganu says, I think it more likely that the whorl has just been in orbit a very very long time, becuase I don't see how Quetzal could have come to sentience under the conditions of the Whorl without sufficient heat and breeding grounds from Green (which is, of course, much warmer than Old Urth and capable of supporting all kinds of fecund tree monstrosities).

I still favor the idea that the inhumi are pretty much all that's left of humans, that in a morlock and eloi evolutionary scheme they are the lower of the branches, the parasitic vines on the more noble trees.  But you know, not many like that schema so it doesn't have to be utilized to figure out how Quetzal got there, I don't think.

--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> > > So...how DID Quetzal get aboard the Whorl????
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