Fairies and Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 29 Mar 2012, 16:35 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:35:06 -0500
Subject: (urth) Fairies and Wolfe
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On 3/29/2012 7:57 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* David Stockhoff <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>
> **
>
>  > I highly doubt that there is a correlation between "losing
> technology" and true
>  > spiritual advancement in Wolfe, or entities like Jonas and the chems
> would
>  > not be portrayed so humanistically.
> Abaia, Erebus et al don?t obviously use technology either.
> Of course it?s entirely possible and to my mind likely that Abaia, the
> Green Man and the Neighbours have extremely advanced technology, so
> advanced that it looks like magic. I speculated before that if a kiss
> from Juturna can make Severian capable of breathing underwater, it may
> well be that her saliva contains nanomachines that will remodel his
> organs of respiration.


Baldanders certainly uses technology to adapt himself to the water, 
Juturna may be likewise adapted with gills concealed by her green hair.

Nanomachines weren't a thing at the time of the BotNS' writing, and I 
don't think it fits the retro theme to invent "new" scientific 
justifications.


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

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