(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[David Stockhoff]

Yes, but so what? If Nettle knows Sinew was bitten and even that he is 
now dead (IIRC), what secret is left?

On 11/25/2011 10:35 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> 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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