(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[David Stockhoff]

And I'm not sure what would bother Nettle so much, except the notion 
that her son is not her son or her husband not her husband. But both are 
dead by the end, so what is worse than that---except that they have been 
eaten and turned into vampires? Which is not quite what the inhumi do.

On 11/25/2011 10:22 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> The implication that there is a secret beyond the secret we know is that "Nettle must not know the secret", which would be difficult if he were writing it down, unless he is writing for everyone but nettle.
>
> --- On Fri, 11/25/11, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>  wrote:
>
>> From: David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
>> To: "The Urth Mailing List"<urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Friday, November 25, 2011, 4:35 AM
>> On 11/23/2011 11:21 PM, Lee Berman
>> wrote:
>>> Only the "dry, waterless husk body" scenario would
>>>
>>> allow this sort of space travel. It isn't only
>> temperature but also a matter of internal
>>> cellular pressure. But the effort it would take to
>> launch Inhumi from a planet would
>>> require muscular action. Gerry's rotisserie chicken
>> spinning to catch the sun's radiation
>>> evenly would also require muscular action. Muscles
>> cannot work without water-filled cells and
>>> those cannot exist in the void.
>> This is the main difficulty, I agree. I don't see how it
>> could be
>> accomplished without just ignoring the problem.
>>
>> You also make a good pint when you refer to "the great
>> secret of the
>> inhumi." If they have a secret, that implies some degree of
>> concerted
>> action.
>>
>> But the existence of another secret beyond the secret we
>> know is
>> unproven. I have the same intuition you do, however---that
>> there is
>> something else they hide. Maybe that they can be burned as
>> lianas?
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