(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[Marc Aramini]

Something about Sinew and Krait?  Krait is like Sinew in that the mother of Krait fed on the baby, I think (?)

--- 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, 7:33 AM
> 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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