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Michael Andre-Driussi · 12 Feb 2002, 14:36 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) RE: Digest from  urth at urth.net
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 06:36:45 -0800
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Hartshorn wrote:
>It is on BONS somewhere.  I always wondered at that.  How come the
>inhabitants of this future South America are (mostly) European and white,
>even blond?

Um, because they are descendents of invaders who arrived less than the
magic mutational number of chiliads ago? (My recollection was that in
Severian's musing it was 10 or more chiliads.)  Just like South America
today?

Like that old joke: "What do you call a group of people who have lived in
the arctic circle for ten thousand years?"

Answer: "Blond."

=3Dmantis=3D



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