Silk's origin

James Wynn · 19 Oct 2011, 22:17 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:17:43 -0500
Subject: (urth) Silk's origin
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> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:
> > > 2. Inhumi are animals, and have no relation to vines.  [It may of 
> course be
> > > that particular plants of Green are of some nutritional 
> significance to the
> > > water-breathing juvenile form of the inhumi.]
>
> > I would say that this is an Earth- (or Urth-) centric idea. The
> > distinction between "plant" and "animal" need not apply on an alien
> > world.
> I dunno... the divisions of life seem remarkably similar!  The inhumi 
> are motile and do not photosynthesise; the trees and lianas are the 
> converse.

And yet, we are told that the Rajan's staff was an inhumi and that at 
night he spoke to it.
It's unexpected, even puzzling. But there it is. Somehow clever clever 
Gene has worked it out.

J.

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