5HC

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 03 Sep 2014, 17:44 · from 2014-September.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 12:44:30 -0500
Subject: (urth) 5HC
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On 9/3/2014 7:48 AM, Lee wrote:
> As with leprechauns, kelpies, brownies, fairies, elves, trolls, mermaids,
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> sirens, etc. from mythology, there are categories of Wolfean characters
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> who are not science and technology based like humans but rely more on
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> cleverness, trickery and "magic" in accomplishing their goals. Thus, in
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> Wolfe's work we have Shadow Children, Inhumi, Aelf, Undines, Neighbors and
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> perhaps the hiero-types.
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>
> Consider the concept of "changeling" found so commonly in our tales of faerie
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> folk. I think it adds focus to the idea of Shadow Children, Abos, Inhumi, Hieros
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> and others in Wolfe stories imitating human form and even, for Shadow Children/Abos
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> replacing specific human beings.

Could it be that some other spacefaring race brings imitators from St 
Anne to Earth during the time of the Homeric Greeks, where they 
infiltrate as feys and elfs then are assimilated? The other spacers 
could return to St Anne with humans who are imitated and assimilated, 
setting the stage for the French explorers to land 4 000 years later?

In reading about the middle eastern strife, I see that there is indeed a 
colonial pattern of using multiple races to dominate one another, even 
importing a elite minority when necessary; thus the Rwandan civil war 
after the Belgians stopped supporting the Tutsi as their exploiters of 
the Hutus and the the Twa pygmies.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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