(urth) And Now For Something Completely

[James Wynn]

On 11/16/2011 6:07 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> This reminds me of something that hadn't registered when I read the 
> BSS but which has haunted me since I happened upon it while skimming. 
> The part where Scylla mentions the kind of stuff she did in Typhon's 
> time and says: "Eat sheep. Eat boy.". Now, I did know the typhons were 
> wicked to no end, but anthropophagy?! And I don't think it sounds like 
> the victim died of reasons unrelated.

It's an interesting discourse between Scylla-Oreb and Hoof. But I don't 
think she's saying she ate children on Urth:

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She laughed some more and got me real mad. I said, “Nobody ought to own 
other people, and if they do they shouldn’t kill them unless they’ve 
done something terrible. Besides, you tried to kill your father. That’s 
why you’ve got to hide. You wanted to and if you had you’d be a 
murderer. I think you are anyway.”

The bird whistled, and I thought she had gone away. We whistled back and 
forth, then it said, “We slaves. Pas own.”

I said, “That’s the way Sinew used to talk.”

“Who?” I think it had surprised her.

“Our other brother. He’s older than Hide and me. Father says he’s still 
alive on Green and has two sprats, but he used to talk like that a lot. 
Our real father would try to get him to help in the mill, and there 
would be big fights. Or he would start some kind of work and go away, so 
our father would have finish it, or Hide and me would.”

“Like slave!” That had gotten to her. “Pas say. I do.”

I said, “He was your father. He fed you and gave you a place to live, 
and clothes.”

“I fed! Eat sheep. Eat boy.”
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She is not talking about her life on Urth. She is talking about her life 
in the Mainframe.
She is saying that her siblings and her mother were like slaves with 
Pas. She is saying that Pas didn't feed her. She fed herself on 
sacrifices of animals and children.
Although, it is true that Cilinia did conspire against her father with 
megatherian Scylla.



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