(urth) [BGSpam]Re: Typhon's nature

[Gerry Quinn]

From: Marc Aramini 

> > --- On Sat, 10/15/11, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote: 
        Surely these things are obvious?  We know he had the technology, because the Whorl is loaded with it.  It seems obvious that a technology that can produce Mucor or a psychic internet can prevent, say, the blindness of Tartarus, who seems otherwise sound.  So Typhon must have chosen not to use it.
      > Sigh.  Putting your head on someone else and wanting a perfect child 
      > > means to me that Typhon would have LOVED genetically getting the 
      > perfect heir, and somehow his technology either didn't foresee or 
      > couldn't predict Tartarus' blindness. He wants a more worthy son 
      > after all these failures, so he decides to get the perfect one.  That's 
      > what he wants.  I think Mucor and Typhon have "natural" psyhic powers
      > (inherited but possibly augmented from normal homosapiens over time, 
      > not necessarily machine based at all; Wolfe believes in souls) I think its
      > a mistake to dismiss the unscientific as naturally impossible in Wolfe.
      >   I would certianly engineer an heir if I would put my head on somebody
      > else, but I would still want it to be my genetic material, even if tweaked 
      > to be the best of me.
      Typhon’s vision and that of his other children was fine.  If Tartarus were given the same it would not have impinged on any putative genetic absolutism on his part.
      - Gerry Quinn 



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