brief "purpose of Whorl" reply

maa32 · 12 Dec 2002, 13:59 · from urth-v0212.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) brief "purpose of Whorl" reply
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 06:59:55 -0700
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Recently, the interview in which Wolfe claimed that Blue and Green where th=
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destination of Typhon was put forth, and that his purpose was returning man=
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the stars.  I don't think this destroys the Blue is Urth idea.  I have alwa=
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insisted that Typhon wanted to re-colonize, and that he knew that the Urth =
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facing a calamity, and that he wanted his ship to return.  I think it just=20
returned much later in time than he planned, but still tried to drop off a=20
copy of Pas/Typhon to be worshipped on the "new" ancestral home of mankind.=
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THEN it continued on its way outward to the stars, as it left at the end,=20
after insuring that Typhon (or at least some memory of him as Pas) was left=20
behind in the minds of the new inhabitants - self aggrandizement was always=20
his theme, and he wanted to leave a marker that would outlive and immortali=
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him. Then mankind could go back out to the stars, after the plan of Pas was=20
fulfilled.  That's the best I can do now.
Marc Aramini

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