May 2014 Wolfe interview in _Technology Review_

Marc Aramini · 11 Aug 2014, 18:34 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:34:52 -0700
Subject: (urth) FW: May 2014 Wolfe interview in _Technology Review_
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And that's exactly what has happened and the reason there are no new
buildings in Port Mimizon - progressively worse imitations.  The inutile
hand of the abos is represented by the fingers and thumb of port mimizon.
The real give away showing that the population is aborigine is the stork
and staff like legs all the girls have on St. Croix, with leg problems
(like the black queen Aunt Jeanine, who echoes a never met white queen),
which resonate with the "heron-like" walk of the abos in "A Story".  It is
hinted that females in particular express leg and mobility problems earlier
than males in the dialog of a story as well, and both Aunt Jeanine and
their young female friend have leg issues.

Human civilization has been almost completely replaced on both worlds by
abos, save for the replicating number five who is still human and the
shadow child Marsch.  Thus when the French landers show up, it says "they"
don't know what open hands mean ... but is there any culture on earth that
doesn't know what open hands means? It is the aboriginal culture which
doesn't understand that, and they have already, instantly, shifted their
identification so that "they" are the landers who can't understand what
open hands mean, mid sentence shifting the pronoun by their assimilation of
a foreign identity.

(Marsch is not an abo, he is an infected vector for Shadow Children).

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Ant?nio Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11 August 2014 13:31, Lee <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Marsch is the replacement for an Abo,
>
>
> I find this interesting. If we are to believe Abos imitate other kinds,
> then they should imitate them along with their imperfections. That would
> suggest that an Abo  imitating an Abo-imitating-a-human would hardly ever
> be a better imitation of the human, but usually a worse one.
>
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