(urth) FW: May 2014 Wolfe interview in _Technology Review_

[Marc Aramini]

are these leaves the Shadow Children chew from the carapace corpse trees of
the aborigines in the final stage of their life cycle? If that is the case,
perhaps the aboriginal cells have two means of surviving: through standard
macrocosmic sexual recombination and then through cellular mimicry when
they are consumed and chewed, mimicking the host cells and allowing
cellular reproduction to occur in this fashion with undifferentiated
cells.  Would be an interesting case of crazy converging AND diverging
evolution.


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote:

> eastwind has no testicles but survives - the life cycle of the shadow
> children does not involve sexual reproduction.  I also know Eastwind is an
> abo, but he SYMBOLIZES the shadow children's propagation cycle in the
> story's conclusion, while Sandwalker symbolizes the aboriginal one.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> my mistake, replaced, supplanted.  I KNOW  he was bitten by the cat,
>> Gerry.  Why even say that?  Victor is only a part of the equation because
>> the cat had a kind of affinity for Victor like the Shadow Children do for
>> whoever with their psychic empathy, but it is the bite that brings the
>> fragment of that psychic connection into Marsch and "replaces" him.  If
>> there is any of Victor in Marsch, it is through the psychic resonance the
>> cat had with Victor.
>>
>> I think of Victor and Marsch as two distinct entities, and Victor DIES in
>> a scene you believe to be a fabrication, a fall.  But Wolfe wants us to
>> believe Victor takes Marsch's place and assumes his shape, because that is
>> the first false solution to the mystery without touching on the life cycle
>> of the Shadow Children that underlies the point of "A Story".  It seems
>> Sandwalker the abo lives, as it seems Victor replaces Marsch, but Marsch
>> is actually but a vector for an infection which can rise up on air currents
>> and float in the wind (Eastwind).
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 05/08/2014 17:59, Marc Aramini wrote:
>>>
>>>> they say the white creatures they chew and spit out are their "brides."
>>>> - seems like an organism to me. As I said, the associations are symbolic
>>>> rather than literal, so proving it is quite unlikely.  Sandwalker and
>>>> Eastwind ARE switched by a bite.  Marsch is switched with a bite, too.  But
>>>> you don't buy it, that's fine.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's the plant.  It's white and without comfort because the drug is
>>> used up.  Then they wait until sufficient time has passed for safety, and
>>> take more of the plant.
>>>
>>> Why do you say Marsch is switched, rather than replaced?  The new Marsch
>>> says "I needed to make my voice like his and look older". And the old
>>> Marsch was bitten by the cat, not by Victor...
>>>
>>>
>>> - Gerry Quinn
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