Digest whorl.v009.n005

Alex David Groce · 02 Nov 1998, 11:53 · from whorl-v0009.mbox · original

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: "Alex David Groce" <adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v009.n005
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:53:21
Message-ID: <whorl-v0009-0031 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0009/0031.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Rostrum said:
> I guess I'm imagining that a male and female get together and start making
> the little chem and go into an different mode of consciousness, after
> which they couldn't really tell you what they did or how they did it.
> All part of Typhon's plan to keep technology out of the wrong hands.
>=20
> And OF COURSE they would demand privacy.

	Yes.  Clearly the whole system has been designed by Typhon to keep
useful technology out of the cargo's hands--not that Typhon did such a hot
job...  It's easy to imagine a program that the Chems can run but can't
consciously access--they can "do it", but are made so they can't figure out=
 how
they do it.  I mean, people can have kids, but for most of history, if you'd
taken two people aside and said--"When you have sex and out comes a kid, how
does that work?  I'm thinking of using hearts for power packs on my new
catapults," well you get the picture.
--=20
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." - John 8:32
--
Alex David Groce (adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu)
Senior (Computer Science/Multidisciplinary Studies in Technology & Fiction)
'98-99 NCSU AITP Student Chapter President
608 Charleston Road, Apt. 1E (919)-233-7366
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~adgroce

*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.
*More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.moonmilk.com/whorl/
*To leave the list, send "unsubscribe" to whorl-request at lists.best.com
*If it's Wolfe but not Long Sun, please use the URTH list: urth at lists.best.=
com

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net