eureka: Proof that trees are neigbors and overview

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: eureka: Proof that trees are neigbors and overview
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 09:01:06 -0700
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Now that I have proven that plants can double limbs and that it is a common=20
occurence,  I will provide a final bit of evidence that seals everything=20
together.  When I first posited that Horn left Silk's body at the end of On=20
Blue's Waters, Nutria replied that neighborly contact was necessary.  Look =
at=20
the last couple of pages of On Blue's Waters.  Where does the narrator go t=
o=20
sleep before that section where Babbie is the narrator shows up? He falls=20
asleep on a large tree, "just like we had on Green".  This is the neighborl=
y=20
contact we sought.

The trees create the neighbors and all life by recombining with them.  The=20
woodsman in On blue's Waters pissed off the neighbors when he went and cut =
a=20
tree down.  The vine at the beginning of In Green's Jungles that Cugino cut=
s=20
down is from one of these huge trees and is an evil liana (which I think is=20
the primitive form of inhumu before they consume any animals - remember the=20
epiphany of Hoof in chapter 17: that moment when you realize that "a stick =
is=20
a snake without moving".  Look at how often Krait and Jahlee are compared t=
o=20
snakes: indeed, when Jahlee and the narrator first go to Urth, she clings t=
o=20
him "like a liana".  In real life, a liana vine (there is also a liana snak=
e)=20
is hollow and holds a ton of water, which enters through its funky holes.  =
The=20
liana staff has been feeding on Silk and making him sick, either depriving =
him=20
of water because some part of Horn became neighbor-like and vegetative when=
 he=20
fell in the hole (which MIGHT account for the narrator's poor apetite: the=20
exchange of DNA has left some remnant of photosynthesis (or perhaps he feel=
s=20
himself becoming what he eats: that part still needs some development.)

So: it is the far future after the flood.  Silk returns to the past to rest=
ore=20
Cillinia to her grave because a human must do it or it comes undone (like t=
he=20
clearing of the sewers Horn had to do [also, note the parallels between Hor=
n=20
in that scene and Severian: carries a sword and a light which he loses in a=20
flood just like Severian lost Terminus Est and the Claw in the battle at th=
e=20
lake; when he completes his task a huge flood washes all human traces away=20
except a blind man] and in return finds out from The mother's mother (or=20
perhaps the mother herself) or arranges for the return of Seawrack so that =
the=20
Mother will no longer seek to destroy mankind in the future.  The inhumi=20
boarded the Long Sun Whorl from the beginning, and they are possibly the=20
witches, and as someone so cogently pointed out, the Cumean who has some=20
relationship with the moon where, low and behold, the inhumu come from in t=
he=20
form of terraforming gone awry and too successfully adapting to the=20
environment.  Remember that eerie scene where he sees her in the moon and=20
thinks she has a totally different form (i think it is in shadow of the=20
torturer --> he says she is wearing a body not her own or something: the=20
witches ARE inhumu, and the Cummean is from the moon)
Also, note that scene when Silk climbs up the cliff in Return to the Whorl =
and=20
meets the man in the colorless cloak on Green when he retreives Jahlee: he =
is=20
"much lighter" than he had ever been before and doesn't have any problem=20
climbing up that huge cliff and fighting off all those inhumu with one hand=
. =20
Typhon has arranged for his return after the flood, and will rule Blue thro=
ugh=20
his downloaded aspect of Pas, and had perhaps sent some of the sleepers=20
programmed to seek out the conciliator (what was Rigoglio thinking when the=
y=20
transported to that particular place? something about eponyms...) Also,=20
remember what happened to the sleepers that came down with the landers? Sil=
k=20
won't tell Rigoglio - he breaks it off.  They are the slaves that Marrow an=
d=20
the others employ because they are confused and lived to serve Typhon.
and that strange four armed man in the sea who boards Horn's ship in On blu=
e's=20
waters, who he posits might have requested eternal life ... could a tree ha=
ve=20
gotten a hold of some of Severian's DNA?  I don't know, but that man on gre=
en=20
who walks "in a stiff bird like fashion" wrapped in a colorless cloak seems=20
pretty familiar to me.  Who walks in a stiff, bird like fashion?  Is it=20
someone we know? Remember how the narrator keeps referring to Severian as h=
is=20
young "friend",(in fact, he refuses to name Severian) and then how Jahlee=20
casts out the bones in the tower and tells him they belong to his "friend"?=
 =20
How long would someone like Severian live?  Can he never die?=20
The question was not "where is Silk", but "where is Horn?".=20
And read the very very first letter from Pajarocu: something about a gray m=
an=20
speaking to "us".  Is Heirax ever represented as gray?  He's involved=20
somehow... and he has to die, too --> but not entirely.

I think I've done a pretty good job making sense of the Masterpiece that is=20
The Book of the Short Sun.  There is still a lot to do.  Remember who did a=
ll=20
this.
Marc Aramini

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