(urth) fifth head owlet- wolf

António Pedro Marques entonio at gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 18:38:32 PDT 2013


No dia 10/04/2013, às 17:06, Gwern Branwen <gwern at gwern.net> escreveu:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Sure, and that origin for Shadow Children has been suggested. But we are trying to work
>> within Marc's plant-origin theme, at least I am. To its credit, this theme does appear to be
>> recurring across Wolfe's work; a thirty year arc from 5HoC to Short Sun.
> 
> But it can work. There are commensal worms, and mutualistic worms.
> They may not be as famous as the partnership between nitrogen-fixing
> bacteria and plant roots, but they exist. We all know of earthworms,
> and in a broader sense, worms can help the plant ecosystem by breaking
> down things (eg. borers and dead wood).

And there are the Giant Tube Worms who live solely on what the chemautotrophic bacteria inside them produce.... Hmmmm........


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