(urth) Flora and Fauna

[Marc Aramini]

And for valid reproduction to continue, its always got to be an animal or animal product with a plant or plant product under that naming system, with the plant being the fecund operator.  I think this plant/animal hybridism/mating is written into the text so deeply it is difficult to get around.  

By Empires of Foliage and Flower you had the sages, sentient vegetation with power over time, or at least, that is the power Father Thyme displayed, a city which translated means Green, etc.  Just been trying to see if there was any sign of this sentient vegetation in New Sun, since nobody likes the quote where Sev in the very first chapter or two thinks about how the new sun will make leaves spring to life and make a brush run up a tree.  Once I got in a debate over whether that was a hairbrush or like, you know, vegetative brush.  Don't care to repeat that one.  Better to look for other examples.

--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
> Subject: (urth) Flora and Fauna
> To: urth at lists.urth.net
> Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 11:53 AM
> 
> Marc's continued insistence on the importance of flora and
> fauna has me thinking.
> I don't doubt he is right.