Teleporting inhumi

Nicholas Gevers · 20 Apr 2001, 18:44 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Nicholas=20Gevers?= <vermoulian at yahoo.com>
Subject: (whorl) Teleporting inhumi
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:44:06 +0100 (BST)
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Patera Nutria: no, I don't think the inhumi are
teleporting from Green to Blue and then back again. If
that were the case, Blue would be infested with them
to a far greater degree than it is. I stick by my
hypothesis, which is simply that the inhumi have been
given a passive astral travel capacity, activatable
only if a biological or honorary Neighbour is also
present. This makes perfect sense textually; and
teleportation adds nothing to my explanation of the
Secret, the first explanation which is both fully
accountable to the text and a sensible adumbration of
the Secret as an offensive weapon.

--Nick Gevers.

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