(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[Marc Aramini]

My theory accounts for the fact that the recombinatorial power of the trees is incompletely bequeathed to their parasites, the lianas.  They make a more degenerate race, but the trees would still be "the parents" (Quetzal ponders that man has climbed up the tree in a myth in Long Sun, he just hasn't climbed down yet - this could be a double symbol for the whorl and for mankind's future state)  

Without human blood, the lianas that feed on reptillian life would be reptillian: they are like what they eat.  Remember the war between the laurel and the vines mentioned in Empires of Foliage and Flower.

--- On Wed, 11/23/11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
> Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
> To: urth at urth.net
> Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 9:14 AM
> 
> 
> >Gerry Quinn: There’s a puzzle here if you think there
> is a biological connection, 
> >though.  
>  
> Perhaps it would help (help you stop arguing with Marc) if
> you just consider it a 
> spiritual connection and stop dwelling on the biology.
>  
>  
> >Lianas exist on both planets, and presumably always
> did, though I suppose 
> >one could make a theory that the lianas arrived on Blue
> at the same time as the 
> >inhumi, and the Neighbours just failed to mention
> it.  So why don’t they develop 
> >into inhumi on Blue?
> 
> Perhaps they do. I see no evidence that they don't. Are we
> shown any means by which
> inhumi get to Blue?
>  
> >Also, Quetzal had a tree in his garden.  Not a
> liana.
> 
> Aren't gardens supposed to provide a food source? Why would
> it have a liana?
> And if it did previously have one on that tree, perhaps it
> is gone because it 
> turned into Quetzal ;- ).    
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