Neighbor "Horn"

maa32 · 09 Jan 2002, 10:23 · from whorl-v0013.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: Neighbor "Horn"
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 03:23:43 -0700
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I can't sleep.  If my genetic recombination theory is right, Horn went thro=
ugh=20
the process of being eaten on Blue when he fell in the vine pit (he fell in=
 a=20
tree) and the genetic recombination process that occurred created the neigh=
bor=20
who would then identify himself as Horn.  Perhaps the recombination does no=
t=20
kill the "animal" part of the hybrid ... but maybe it does and that blue gl=
ass=20
that Horn picked up had some sort of restorative power that returned him fr=
om=20
consumption. (HMM What other BLUE GLASS fragment have we seen before with=20
restorative powers?)
I have satisfied all your arguments against Blue as Green many times over w=
ith=20
the plant genetic recombination arguement, especially in light of the empha=
sis=20
on corn genetics and on the release of eggs by the inhumi.  I am going to s=
ay=20
that the vanished people are not the green men, but are the result of=20
recombination with normal people, eventually replacing them as they did all=20
the animals.  I will further say that their original city is on Green, and=20
that they are the terraformed trees that killed the colonizers there and th=
en=20
came to Blue (the city on Green of the vanished people is almost as big as=20
Nessus).  They are, in essence, the trees that make up many of the islands =
of=20
blue, humans live on top of them.
That man in the colorless cloak on green still interests me.  Heirax still=20
interests me.  I will no longer talk about Blue as Ushas or Green as Lune=20
because I have satisfied myself that I have met every complaint against it =
and=20
now Occam demands that the idea that there are two solar systems instead of=20
one be thrown out. I'm very proud of myself. I'm very impressed by Wolfe on=
ce=20
again.
Marc Aramini

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