blonds of the Commonwealth

Andy Robertson · 16 Jul 2002, 07:18 · from urth-v0207.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) blonds of the Commonwealth
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:18:32 +0100
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Alice K. Turner" <aturner6 at nyc.rr.com>

>>Logically, this is ridiculous.

Not at all.   Massive mixing of populations is historcally a very new thing,
the consequence of massive, fast, travel, and that has stopped in Severian's
time for reasons of technological exhaustion.   The peopel of the
Commonwealthe are not a pan-human mixture:  travel is by foot, and
immigrants are very rare.    You can argue about the relevance of this to
the real future, but not Wolfe's internal logic.

    hartshorn

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