(urth) Inhumi's secret and numbers on blue

[Sergei SOLOVIEV]

It could be a legend existing among inhumi - known from Neighbours and 
since very old times. That is, it may be
not true that the inhumi burn at reentry, but they may know that meteors 
burn, and think that they themselves
burn also - it is sort of "heroic", "luciferian" -

Sergei

António Pedro Marques wrote:
> The problem with Jahlee lying about re-entry burn-up is... How would she, or anyone else apart from the Whorl's Crew, know there is such a thing as burning up on re-entry?
>
> No dia 28/11/2012, às 17:47, Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr> escreveu:
>
>   
>> Maybe you are right - it could indeed be about lying -
>>
>> Sergei
>>
>> Lee Berman wrote:
>>     
>>>> Andrew Mason: That's not just something that breaks the laws of
>>>> physics, as things in what is partly a fantasy work may; it's a
>>>> misunderstanding of how the laws of physics work, even in normal
>>>> circumstances, and what is more it is a notorious schoolboy error
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> So far, so good....
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> On the other hand Jahlee does seem to confirm the story and offer
>>>> evidence, when she says:
>>>> "If you lack endurance…" She shrugged. "Only your frozen corpse gets
>>>> to Blue. It crosses the sky there, a little scratch of fire. No doubt
>>>> you've seen them. I have."
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> Grrrrrr!
>>>
>>> I am tempted to argue that a frozen Inhumi body surely lacks the mass
>>> and density to create the visible light display we can see from a large
>>> meteor, hundreds of miles up in the sky. Thus Jahlee is lying when she says
>>> she's seen examples of Inhumi burning on re-entry...using real shooting star
>>> sightings to bolster the lie...
>>>
>>> But that just furthers the debate, keeping doubt about the falseness of the Inhumi travel story alive. And as long as there is doubt....
>>>
>>> I could be wrong but I really think Wolfe is trying to make a point with this.
>>> Most of us humans are mostly honest and we operate on the default principle that
>>> what most other people say is mostly true.
>>>
>>> But there is a certain "species" of people who exploit this. We have all
>>> experienced the words of a suspected liar who repeats a lie over and over
>>> with such deep sincerity that we can't help but start thinking, "maybe this is
>>> true..". They they've got you.
>>>
>>> I see the Inhumi as a lupine parable about such people. We should be able to identify such liars and we should be able to suspend our normal assumption of
>>> truthfulness and honesty and assume the opposite- that everything such a person
>>> says must be assumed to be a lie. The occasional truth that is produced must be viewed only a strategem so that the next lie will be believed.
>>>
>>> This is a difficult view to take of another human being (especially a family member-
>>> thus the Krait-Sinew connection). But I think Wolfe is urging us to be
>>> cognizant of such people and to not fall victim to them.                         _______________________________________________
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