The Menu at "Chez Werewolf"

William H. Graham III · 19 Sep 1997, 13:08 · from urth-v0004.mbox · original

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From: "William H. Graham III" <William.H.Graham.III at cdc.com>
Subject: (urth) The Menu at "Chez Werewolf"
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:08:23  (Central Daylight Time)
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
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The rant continues:

Why do the old-style humans (OSH) have to resort to cannibalism?  Is there =
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evidence to support the idea that the Masters don't need to eat?

(so they don't need to raise chickens, so they don't need chicken medicine =
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or chicken feed, so there's no more chickens et al for the OSH to eat)

If the Masters do feed, perhaps it's very rarely (I could probably go a lon=
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g way on a cheese sandwich if my body didn't have to fight cancer and heart=
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 disease and stuff).  Thus the supply would be very hard to get.  Maybe the=
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 food they eat is poisonous to OSH.

If the Masters eat three squares a day of reg'ler ol' stuff, fine.  We know=
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 that the OSH can't walk into Kaminski's Deli because :

=3D09The Masters recognize OSH on sight
=3D09OSH don't speak the language
=3D09OSH don't have whatever it is that the Masters use instead of money.

But I don't like the last idea because it begs the question: "Why don't the=
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 OSH just hijack the Oscar-Myer truck while en route to Kaminski's"?

Your thoughts please,

-WHG3

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