(urth) 5hoc: carapace, the cemetery columns, Sandwalker's feet, predendritic
David Stockhoff
dstockhoff at verizon.net
Sun Apr 7 13:22:28 PDT 2013
What about "dendritic" as possibly meaning "living in trees"?
Never mind living */as /*trees . . .
On 4/7/2013 9:59 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> One more quick thought. Everyone dreams of being surrounded by
> columns or trees. In Number 5's dreams, eventually these columns are
> revealed to have words that are rubbed off (the same time he realizes
> it is like a mausoleum or cemetery that all carry his name and
> different dates). the only word he can make out is "carapace".
> Later, the aborigines are confused with old wood, posts, etc. Notice
> the post like/pillar nature of many of the demi-mondaine's legs.
> I am still trying to put together the aboriginal life cycle. The term
> pre-dendritic is very interesting to me, as Marsch describes the
> aboriginal culture. Since the columns in the first novella surround a
> graveyard, are the big circle of trees like a graveyard, too? In VRT,
> that "temple" is cut down (402 trees in a big circle).
> Specifically, should we take pre-dendritic literally? For a certain
> non-imitative aborigine who has not become "human", does death or
> maturity prompt a hard woody carapace that then makes them dendritic
> and rooted?
> The reason I ask this is that in the death scene of VRT, the river
> tree that reaches out for VRT to save him is mentioned with "feet"
> imagery. Only one character always has foot imagery associated with
> him - he who drops from a higher place to a lower - Sandwalker. (and
> there, VRT drops down - and I do liken "Sandwalker's" fate to VRT -
> replaced by somebody who dreams that he is in fact the dead one (thus
> i juxtapose castrated ancestor Eastwind with the airborne
> Shadowchild)) Is this big tree in the river reaching out for VRT
> Sandwalker's carapace encased corpse? How complicated are their life
> cycles? I am assuming that of course one who imitates another species
> would leave this portion of the life cycle behind.
> The classification as predendritic got me thinking about that.
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