Quetzal On Urth?

Charles Reed · 25 Nov 2002, 18:44 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: "Charles Reed" <cmreed at link.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Quetzal On Urth?
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:44:23 -0600
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cilluff1 at optonline.net wrote:

>Charles wrote:
>
><bugs me more than it should.  There are other theories floating around=20
>that I don't agree with but that I can stomach because they at least=20
>seem to be within the realm of possibility because their positions can=20
>be argued from the *text*.  Examples of such theories include the Blue =3D=20
>Ushas theory, and the theory that it was Severian who appeared to Horn=20
>in the pit....... =20
>
>In other words, if the inhumi can travel to Urth (as has been suggested of=20
>Quetzal) then they've *got* to do that.  We would hear stories of them=20
>on Urth, see one flying in the distance, observe people who don't eat,=20
>can't run, and lick their chops when someone mentions blood.  Something.=20
> Some indication.  But there's nothing.  No indication whatsoever that=20
>any of the inhumi have ever been on Urth.>>
>
>Let me start by saying that I agree with your points, and generally don't
>think the inhumi were on Urth.  But just to put forth one possible textual
>reference, when I first starting reading Blue the inhumi reminded me of the
>bloodbats that bite Jolenta and Severian.  Perhaps these were the
>pre-evolved inhumi?  Jolenta's reaction to the bite were reminiscent of the
>child who was bitten that Silk attended to (the name slips my mind).
>

I always took the blood-bats to be actual bats, similar to South=20
American vampire bats except larger and less afraid of attacking people=20
than those we have on our "Earth."  Also, the physical reactions of=20
anybody that loses a lot blood -- whether to a vampire bat, an inhumu,=20
or a cut on the wrist -- would be the same, although the emotional=20
reactions might quite different.

And as for some other creature evolving into the inhumi:  this could=20
only happen if Urth somehow became . . . Green? . . . since that's the=20
only place the inhumi can breed. =20

By the way, I think the child's name was Teasel.

Charles

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