Inhumi secret

Andrew Mason · 28 Nov 2012, 15:33 · from 2012-November.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:33:00 +0000
Subject: (urth) Inhumi secret
Message-ID: <CAM3O41LWf++DhdovkOsvOr_=ZgWYghEQTBdJ_aCog4rs8jjUSA at mail.gmail.com>

Lee Berman wrote:

>>nate jarvis: If everyone on Earth stops having sex or doing needle drugs for what?
>>a year? then we all go and get AIDS tests, then AIDS is cured.
>>THAT sounds more likely than everyone being nice to one another to
>>wipe out vampire-like monsters they'd rather lynch.
>>Horn seems to to feel if he revealed the secret it would spell trouble
>>for the inhumi as well.
>
> My own thinking is in line with nates, but I have to admit that Jerry's thinking
> is congruent with Wolfe's quote in the Gevers interview. Perhaps we are just
> supposed to accept it at face value. (urg..but I just...can't...do....that)

We should bear in mind, though, that the Rajan himself is very
doubtful about whether the secret is really useful. "If you will, it
is a great and terrible weapon. That is how the inhumi themselves see
it, and I will not call them wrong. But it is a weapon too heavy for
our hands."

This does of course raise the question why the inhumi themselves feel
threatened by it.  Did they ever meet a people who were able to use
it? Certainly not the Neighbours, who were also overwhelmed by them.

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