5HC

Gerry Quinn · 31 Aug 2014, 15:52 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:52:11 +0100
Subject: (urth) 5HC
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On 31/08/2014 05:17, Richard Simon wrote:
>
> The SC retain, dreamlike, fragments of human culture they absorbed 
> from the settlers of the first wave. Thus they can speak of 
> starcrossers and the legend of Atlantis, things Sandwalker's people 
> (the original humans, whose original culture and technology have 
> perished, and who live like -- what's the word Wolfe uses? -- 
> dendritic hunter-gatherers on Ste. Anne, have long forgotten.
>
> It is the Shadow Children who have their brains in their thoraxes.

But then who is Victor?  He is apparently not a Shadow Child, and he 
imitates Marsch.

I don't put any faith in business of a random girl being said to have 
long legs or a random guy having head scars.  Could be they arose in 
ordinary ways, or perhaps one or both paid a visit to Maitre's operating 
table.  If the legs or scars were odd enough for No. 5 to notice as 
remarkable, they must be unusual.

And starcrosser technology as understood by the Old Wise One seems to be 
identical to that of modern-day Earthlings.

- Gerry Quinn
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