Like a good Neighbor

David Stockhoff · 25 Nov 2011, 12:47 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:47:42 -0500
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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On 11/24/2011 11:58 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
> Actually, he doesn't. He is as meticulous as he can be. In this case it is completely
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> unnecessary for inhumi to fly through space. And they don't. Wolfe would not give us such
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> an implausible scientific impossibility unless there was a desperate need for it in the
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> story. And there isn't. The way inhumi travel through space is shown: on spaceships, using
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> deception to stow away in one form or another.
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> Raising the possibility of their unassisted space travel is used to illustrate the power of
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> lying, not to encourage fantastic, non-texual biological impossibilities. The inhumi need
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> this secret to be well-kept or they will lose the vital element of deceit they need to get
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> onto spaceships.

Agreed. But what did they do before the Whorl came? Did they never go to 
Blue?

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