Short Sun notes: Remora.

Gerry Quinn · 06 Oct 2013, 23:01 · from 2013-October.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 00:01:33 +0100
Subject: (urth) Short Sun notes: Remora.
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From: Andrew Mason

> The iNeighbours whom Horn/the Rajan meets certainly seem to be
> higher than humans, but we should remember that they thought
> that humans would be better able to cope with the inhumi threat
> than they did, so it may be that it's just a matter of who we see.
> (They may have been wrong about that, of course: It's likely that
> they were influenced by the example of Quetzal, and it's possible
> that he isn't a typical inhumu because his source - perhaps Pike
> - isn't a typical human.)

The discuission reminds me of Fifth Head of Cerberus, in which all parties 
(I think particularly of the three groups present on Sainte Anne before the 
French landing, but it applies equally well to humans thereafter) seem 
fairly well convinced of their own race's superiority.  Though in truth no 
group, aboriginal or human, appeared to have too much to be proud of.

- Gerry Quinn

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