(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[James Wynn]

Looks to me like someone's inhumi roommate left town without kicking in on his half of the rent.

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On Nov 23, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

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>> David Stockhoff: I'm not arguing for anything but its plausibility. I think it's a cool 
>> idea. I WANT to believe ... !
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> I know you do! Argh! LMAO, I swear I am going to throw a hissy fit tantrum on this. 
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> No, NO, NO!! It isn't plausible. Only the "dry, waterless husk body" scenario would
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> allow this sort of space travel. It isn't only temperature but also a matter of internal
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> cellular pressure. But the effort it would take to launch Inhumi from a planet would 
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> require muscular action. Gerry's rotisserie chicken spinning to catch the sun's radiation 
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> evenly would also require muscular action. Muscles cannot work without water-filled cells and
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> those cannot exist in the void.
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> I can see debating possibilities for fun. But not plausibility. There isn't any. As an 
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> effective Wolfe reader one *MUST* become aware of the lies of unreliable narrators. And the
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> inhumi are as unreliable as any narrator in any Wolfe story. This is our responsibility.
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> Let's not shirk it! ;- ).
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>> For me, the most compelling argument would be that inhumi do not 
>> see---or at least are not blinded---in the human visual spectrum. Krait 
>> says.....
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> Stop right there! There is not the slightest chance of a compelling argument here once the 
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> words, "Krait says.." appears. You know this! (you acknowledge this) But still you want to
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> believe the Great Deceivers and their pleasant, interesting, "cool" lies.
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>> (He could be lying, but if so the inhumi have a whole ad campaign worked 
>> out, complete with talking points to insert into unrelated 
>> conversations. Which is entirely possible.)
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> It is a veritable certainty. The campaign goes by the label of the great secret of the Inhumi.
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> SilkHorn has promised them he would not reveal it to us. And he does not. He even provides the
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> boondoggle of "You are what you eat" as their secret to show solidarity with any lying inhumi
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> who happen to read (or have read to them) the text.
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> But what Silkhorn does is provide the discerning reader with the means to determine what the 
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> real Inhumi secret is. This allows him to support the good guys against the bad guys without
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> breaking his vow. Wolfe's science may not be perfect in his stories but it is damn good. Far,
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> far too good to allow naked biological bodies to perform extended flight in the void.
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> (believe the inhumi and I've got an Iraq invasion to sell you, complete with yellowcake uranium,
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> hundreds of Iraqi nuclear warheads and 9/11 planned by Saddam Hussein ;-))                         
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