Inhumi eyes and names

David Stockhoff · 30 Sep 2012, 17:04 · from 2012-September.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:04:46 -0400
Subject: (urth) Inhumi eyes and names
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On 9/30/2012 3:29 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
> I consider the spaceflight thing to be part of the real secret of the inhumi
> so perhaps the assumption is helping to disguise something about the inhumi.
> I'm thinking of their snake-(serpent-?) like nature that Marc has noted for
> them in the text, especially for Jahlee. Though a krait isn't a pit viper,
> that type of snake is often described as having infrared vision through their
> pits.

Good clue.

>> nate jarvis: wolfe wiki says Jahlee = fake, counterfeit. I run 'fake' and
>> 'counterfeit' through Hindi>English on google translate and get ???? /
>> J?l? for 'counterfeit'.
> This is helpful. I did encounter the word "jali" in my searches, as the name for
> those intricately carves screens so prevalent in Indian architecture. Not sure
> how that connects to counterfeit. I still wonder a little why Wolfe chose to
> make Jahlee the one of five exception to Vironese naming convention. I still
> think maybe the necessary connection to Jahi is part of it.

Counterfeit = Deceiver?

> Then there is Krait's connection to Sinew. A true father-son dynamic 
> is established. And there is the clear (to me) connection of both 
> Krait and Sinew to Gene Wolfe's own son with whom he had (published) 
> difficulties. When I consider the love and disrespect, the lies and 
> bloodsucking and manipulation depicted between Horn and these 
> characters, I feel a real sense of empathy for what this family must 
> have gone through.

I actually don't know anything about this. Without necessarily getting 
into details, what's the broad story there?

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