Inhumi in the whorl

Andrew Mason · 11 Feb 2011, 23:11 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:11:01 +0000
Subject: (urth) Inhumi in the whorl
Message-ID: <AANLkTimPQexYDpjeZiXACP6okHPr6KA6VmqpS+kYUTyc at mail.gmail.com>

Gerry Quinn wrote:>

>> Still, the way it's said sounds a bit like a a clue to me. Is it
>> possible that they have gone to Lune? That's a neighbour whorl in a
>> very obvious sense.
>
> Not to Blue...

Oh no, clearly not. You'd have to take 'you' to mean just 'humans',
not 'humans on Blue'.

To clarify: I'm sure the plain, literal meaning of the remark is that
some humans on Blue call the place the Neighbours have gone the
Neighbour Whorl, because the Neighbours have gone there. But there
_might_ be a secondary, hidden meaning, which might refer to Lune,
fairyland, or something else we haven't spotted yet. Then again, there
might not.

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