(urth) Silk's Origin

[Marc Aramini]

--- On Wed, 10/12/11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
> Subject: (urth) Silk's Origin
> To: urth at urth.net
> Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 5:44 AM
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> >James Wynn: How does an inhumi become a vine?
> 
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> >Marc Aramini: No, no, no.  The liana vines are
> primitive inhumi, the natural state of inhumi 
> >without blood. They parasitized the ability to
> recombine their genome from the much more 
> >mystical trees of Green, which can actually more fully
> integrate the genetic material they eat 
> >like in "Talk of Mandrakes."In the absence of humans to
> feed upon, the only inhumi left would be 
> >the vegetable lianas.
> 
> I'm thinking James' question might have had a whimsical
> tone rather than being meant as a strict, 
> literal query but I do think you are right Marc. Thus the
> "secret of the inhumi". Vines/lianas don't
> engage in social pathology such as lying and manipulation.
> They got that from us.  How do you think 
> the reptile/amphibian aspect of inhumi got incorportated?
>  
> Does the multi-head/multi-limb aspect of the Neighbors
> reflect a tree origin?    

In my opinion, yes, and it also symbolically represents the doubled genetic nature of a hybrid strain (corn genetics in the first chapter of OBW and hybridization linked to the condition of Blue - ad nauseum!  Both symbolic of Silk-Horn and the neighbors as hybrids more suited to the harsh environment).  Note how MAD the neighbors get when a guy with an ax goes into the forest.  why?  It's mother tree he's going to cut down.
         
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