Fairies and Wolfe

Marc Aramini · 29 Mar 2012, 13:12 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:12:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Fairies and Wolfe
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Lee this is philosophically interesting to me ... I think there is a turning away from meaty flesh in that and away from carnality and decay into something more immutable and less subject to "the weakness of the flesh" ... so I look at becoming mechanical or plant like as beig preferable to being merely flesh.

Very interesting, huh?  "Plant Engineering" heh heh heh.

I think Wolfe's light can be shed on Wolfe's opus by his old day job.

--- On Wed, 3/28/12, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> isn't needed anymore for more advanced beings. I'm actually
> surprised that Marc of all people
> 
> raises this point. I thought you were highly attuned to the
> WOlfean idea of humanity's
> 
> future as becoming more quasi-plant-like.

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