Time, Not Cloning

David Stockhoff · 01 Aug 2013, 19:25 · from 2013-August.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:25:05 -0400
Subject: (urth) Time, Not Cloning
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On 8/1/2013 2:12 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> Since being "grown from cells" is mentioned in the old Autarch's explanation of
> khaibits, I have to think Wolfe originally meant "khaibit" to mean more exclusively
> the biological cloning of an individual. And since the cloned prostitutes in House
> Azure are alive at the same time as their donor mistreses, "khaibit" must mean,
> as you suggest, only the copying of a soul, and not requiring death.


This makes me wonder what happens to khaibits when their originals die. 
What happened to Thecla's when she died---was she freed in some way?

(a rhetorical question, really)

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