Inhumi in the Whorl

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 09 Feb 2011, 21:13 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:13:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Inhumi in the Whorl
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--- On Wed, 2/9/11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
> Subject: (urth) Inhumi in the Whorl
> To: urth at lists.urth.net
> Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 3:30 PM
> 
> 
> What does The Mother use Seawrack for? What do Scylla,
> Erebus, Abaia et al. use humans on 
> Urth for? 
>  
> I guess it can be pleasant to think of one's own race as
> the ultimate top of the food chain or 
> whatever, but can we be sure that is humanity's place in
> the Sun Cycle? Top Dog? ???
 ???
One interpretation of the Urth/Whorl universe is that a ladder stretches from us to the Increate, with an "angel" of increasing purity on every rung.

Another is that a ladder stretches downward to the lowest sentient prey/host (us), with a predator (wolf?) on every rung.

It's all in your point of view. Or how you spell "pray."

Either way, the universe is a dangerous place, where sentient beings are only as [in]humane to us as we are to one another. "Man Is Wolf To Man," as the title of the autobiography of an WW2 Eastern Front survivor has it.

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