terraforming or something else?

tom · 27 Dec 2002, 20:10 · from urth-v0212.mbox · original

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From: "tom" <tom at bitterman.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) terraforming or something else?
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:10:09 GMT
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maa32 writes:

> And if people were doubled somehow, and the planet doubled as well throug=
h=20
> some kind of mirror reality created through Inire's mirror universe, migh=
t not=20
> they appear doubled in limbs, too?  As the vanished people do?  Have peop=
le=20
> gone up one dimension, and as a result become "weird" looking?

Maybe I'm just stating the obvious here, but the "doubled" people
seem right out of Aristophanes speech in the _Symposium_.  See:
http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext99/sympo10.txt.  The Neighbors
are then the "old guard" - they're the best the classical world
could come up with, yet have failed to meet the challenge of the
inhumi.  It's time now for Christianity to have a go at it.  Where
do the Neighbors go?  Into mythology.

> Marc Aramini

Tom

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