Silk's Origin

Lee Berman · 12 Oct 2011, 12:44 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:44:39 -0400
Subject: (urth) Silk's Origin
Message-ID: <SNT123-W49E65D75373F2683D185AACFE30 at phx.gbl>

>James Wynn: How does an inhumi become a vine?

>Marc Aramini: No, no, no.  The liana vines are primitive inhumi, the natural state of inhumi 
>without blood. They parasitized the ability to recombine their genome from the much more 
>mystical trees of Green, which can actually more fully integrate the genetic material they eat 
>like in "Talk of Mandrakes."In the absence of humans to feed upon, the only inhumi left would be 
>the vegetable lianas.

I'm thinking James' question might have had a whimsical tone rather than being meant as a strict, 
literal query but I do think you are right Marc. Thus the "secret of the inhumi". Vines/lianas don't
engage in social pathology such as lying and manipulation. They got that from us.  How do you think 
the reptile/amphibian aspect of inhumi got incorportated?

Does the multi-head/multi-limb aspect of the Neighbors reflect a tree origin?

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