(urth) Inhumi eyes and names

[David Stockhoff]

On 9/30/2012 3:29 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
> I consider the spaceflight thing to be part of the real secret of the inhumi
> so perhaps the assumption is helping to disguise something about the inhumi.
> I'm thinking of their snake-(serpent-?) like nature that Marc has noted for
> them in the text, especially for Jahlee. Though a krait isn't a pit viper,
> that type of snake is often described as having infrared vision through their
> pits.

Good clue.

>> nate jarvis: wolfe wiki says Jahlee = fake, counterfeit. I run 'fake' and
>> 'counterfeit' through Hindi>English on google translate and get जाली /
>> Jālī for 'counterfeit'.
> This is helpful. I did encounter the word "jali" in my searches, as the name for
> those intricately carves screens so prevalent in Indian architecture. Not sure
> how that connects to counterfeit. I still wonder a little why Wolfe chose to
> make Jahlee the one of five exception to Vironese naming convention. I still
> think maybe the necessary connection to Jahi is part of it.

Counterfeit = Deceiver?

> Then there is Krait's connection to Sinew. A true father-son dynamic 
> is established. And there is the clear (to me) connection of both 
> Krait and Sinew to Gene Wolfe's own son with whom he had (published) 
> difficulties. When I consider the love and disrespect, the lies and 
> bloodsucking and manipulation depicted between Horn and these 
> characters, I feel a real sense of empathy for what this family must 
> have gone through.

I actually don't know anything about this. Without necessarily getting 
into details, what's the broad story there?