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Sergei SOLOVIEV · 27 Nov 2012, 20:35 · from 2012-November.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei SOLOVIEV)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:35:41 +0100
Subject: (urth) (no subject)
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The ritual occurs in the discussion with Juganu, in "Return to the Whorl" -

Sergei

DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:
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> *From:* Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>
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> *Sent:* Monday, November 26, 2012 10:34 AM
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> the secret of the inhumi is that they are all that is left of 
> humanity, a vestigial parasite that can no longer breed without a 
> fresh infusion of human blood.
>  
> For all intents and purposes, they are humans, and their little mating 
> ritual where they pretend to be man and woman is just ontogeny 
> recapitulating philogeny.
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>
>
> Marc
>
> Where does this ritual occur in the text?
>
> Do you think Quetzal's remark about A-man and Wo-man going up the tree 
> and not coming down again is related to this ritual (aside from the 
> possibility that Urth is literally Green and that all inhumi are 
> descended from humans)?
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