Inhumi eyes and names

Daniel Petersen · 28 Sep 2012, 20:07 · from 2012-September.txt.gz

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From: danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com (Daniel Petersen)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:07:36 +0100
Subject: (urth) Inhumi eyes and names
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Well, any 'real' magic (i.e. occult sorcery or what have you) wouldn't be
'just magic' anyway, it seems superfluous to me that you point this out.
 I'm not in any way denying causality (that's just silly).  I'm saying it
should all be 'linked to cause and effect' (as you say) *very broadly
conceived* - which I also think you're saying when you limn that causal
sphere as ranging from the Conciliator's blood to the white fountain.

-DOJP

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> --- On *Fri, 9/28/12, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>*wrote:
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> Yeah, admitting that the 'genre' or 'mode' is some kind of 'fantasy' in no
> way mitigates against any symbolism.  I'm wondering what I said that made
> that worth pointing out?  All I'm saying is that the 'mechanism', in the
> Solar Cycle, does *not* have to be in terms of 'scientific' naturalism.
>  There are surely 'occult', or 'preternatural' forces at work in this
> series, in addition to and in conjunction with mega-futuristic
> super-science.
>
> -DOJP: http://www.urth.net
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> I was pointing out that in addition to symbolic levels there are usually
> obscured MECHANISTIC ones (hot gas making a tent rise, in that case) that
> are also at work in New Sun.  The puzzle was whether the miracles of the
> claw where cellular rearrangements or simply a pocket time dilation device
> (fueled not by the claw but by the resonance between the Conciliator's
> blood and the white fountain and existing across many times).  There are
> mechanistic explanations in Wolfe, it's not just "magic".  Though it may at
> times be apotropaic and dualistic in nature, it can often be linked to
> cause and effect.
>
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