Father Inire-Hethor

Jeff Wilson · 16 Oct 2011, 18:15 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:15:35 -0500
Subject: (urth) Father Inire-Hethor
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On Sun, October 16, 2011 06:19, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> I wouldn?t say immortality necessarily makes one a god.  If it did,
> wouldn?t amoebae be gods?

Amoebae are certainly not strongly immortal in the fashion of Severian;
they can be observed to die and remain dead when exposed to items as
benign
as distilled water.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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