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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 11 Feb 2002, 19:33 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: (urth) RE: Digest from  urth at urth.net
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:33:39 -0800
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Hartshorn wrote:

> Has anyone given any seriouss thought to the treatment of race=20
> in Wolfe?

Yes.

There is an interesting comment, and I cannot for the life of me remember
whether it is somewhere in tBotNS or, perhaps, Castle of the Otter - but
Wolfe-or-his-narrator comments that each of the continents of [Earth|Urth]
has a racial "type" which is proper to it, and that whoever colonizes that=20
continent winds up conforming to that type in about two thousand years.=20

Sort of post-adaptationism?

I'll try to look for that quote when I do my big reread of the Sun books
later this year...

--D


--=20

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