Quetzal On Urth?

Don Doggett · 26 Nov 2002, 04:25 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: "Don Doggett" <harlekin at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Quetzal On Urth?
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:25:17 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Reed" <cmreed at link.com>
 > I feel like I'm ranting, and I apologize.  I just can't see any textual
> support (which again is not the same as the lack of refutation) for the
> idea that any inhumi ever visited Urth.  Is there any?
>
> Charles
>

No need at all to apologize.  These texts can be maddening if you're looking
for conclusive evidence for anything.  I think there is incidental support
for the inhumi on Urth, but I also think that Wolfe shoehorned it in after
the fact.  Near the end of Claw, Jolenta is bitten by something (a blood
bat?) and the bleeding won't stop.  Immediately after, they meet the Cumaen
and Merryn in the ruined town of Apu Punchau.  This doesn't have any
relevance by itself, but in Return to the Whorl, Silkhorn and Jahlee (and
whoever else) encounter Merryn on Urth and Jahlee seems to intimate that
Merryn is an inhuma (at least that's one way to interpret it).

Don

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