(urth) second dream team
Dave Tallman
davetallman at msn.com
Mon Sep 22 05:07:15 PDT 2008
Marc,
Your article is fascinating and I agree with nearly all of it except for
the "Urth is Green" which seems to me a stretch too far. (I know that
Gene Wolfe once said this, but I believe it was an engineering joke
about ground wires).
Those who don't accept this part of the theory need an alternate
explanation for the extreme compatibility of Neighbors/inhumi/Blue life
with humans. They are blood-eating and soul-copying compatible (inhumi),
"change-blood" compatible (shearbears), and "hybrid" compatible (Horn as
a Neighbor-man, whatever that process entails).
Blue or Green being Urth is only one possible explanation. Here are some
others:
1) Settlement long ago by human colonists using FTL travel. Typhon might
or might not have known of this, perhaps intending an invasion rather
than a fresh colony.
2) Time-travel, such that the Neighbors derive from the present Whorl
colonists.
3) Parallel evolution. The doubled-limbed character of the life forms
does suggest they are different. Hybridization that doubles genes
wouldn't automatically double limbs.
> This is probably my article, which M. Wynn was kind enough to host all these years.
>
> http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/chras-writers/marc-aramini1.htm
>
> also, cornsilk is a common phrase which makes the italian near cognate interesting.
>
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