(urth) Typhon's nature

[David Stockhoff]

On 10/15/2011 6:34 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
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> --- On *Sat, 10/15/11, Gerry Quinn /<gerry at bindweed.com>/* wrote:
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>     *From:* David Stockhoff
>     <http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dstockhoff@verizon.net>
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>     > > *From:* David Stockhoff <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>     > > > > On the other hand, Typhon would have known of the dangers of
>     > > > > inbreeding, and it also seems that he didn’t much like the
>     idea of
>     > > > > genetically engineering his offspring.
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>     From Gerry> > > Why do you think this?
>     > > Because he had access to the technology, and he didn’t use it.
>     > How do you know this?
>     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.
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> 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.
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Thank you, Marc.


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