(urth) Inhumi in the Whorl

[Lee Berman]

>James Wynn: that is, Faerie. Where the Neighbors 
>ultimately ended up, I'm not sure. Perhaps in Urth's ancient pre-history.

 
>David Stockhoff: Exactly. That interpretation of "Neighbor" has been with me from my 
>first reading. But I don't have any idea what to do with it.
>I tend to consider conclusions like these to be too literal and not 
>literary enough; that is, they try to make too much of references. For 
>all we know, we are to understand that the Neighbors went sideways when 
>they left.
>But, borrowing from the parallel discussion of astral projection, it 
>seems an argument could be made that the Neighbors somehow co-opted the 
>Inhumi ability to astral project as humans, combined with time travel, 
>to go back to old Earth and become our gods.
 
 
Old Earth or Urth? Well, either way I think you and James have a good idea
on the right way to go with all this.
 
Hm..."not literary enough"?  You can't mean Wolfe displays a poor use of the 
English language I think....
 
Aside from that, isn't the thing that turns a story into literature the ability
of the author to use his characters to address timeless themes of human existence?
 
Isn't the origin of western literature rooted in the mythology and religion of ancient
people? I can't imagine a more literary subject than trying to illustrate the mindset
of the people who actually created those mythologies and religions. 
 
Isn't that essentially what happens throughout the whole SUn Series- human beings contending
with powers a bit too great, complex and advanced to fully comprehend but trying to
use the written word to describe the situation anyway.