(urth) Conditional Concession to Lee

[António Marques]

In about every case of attention being drawn to an unusual life span in
literature, the answer is hidden reproduction. And doesn't The Phantom live
in the jungle?
I still don't like the idea of Rudesind being a monkey, though.

On 9 September 2014 19:43, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com <jwilson at clueland.com
> wrote:

> On 9/9/2014 11:06 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
>>
>> On 08/09/2014 19:08, Lee wrote:
>>
>>  Wolfe is careful to put such Earthian references only in the hands of
>>> certain key Urth individuals who are likely to be privy to them, e.g.
>>> Jonah as mentioned, Father Inire/Rudesind, for the Apollo moon
>>> painting, Dr. Talos for Frankenstein, etc. Please remind me if I have
>>> overlooked any Earth reference from a non-spacefaring, general
>>> populace sort from Urth (i.e. with a Saint name).
>>>
>>
>> Thecla's sister Thea is an exultant, so perhaps not of the common
>> populace, but she is aware of the fact that 'present' meant 'now' and
>> 'gift' in English.  I assume she learned it in history class.
>>
>
> I've long been one of the people pooh-poohing Lee's notion of Inire as a
> multiple creature and shapeshifter like Tzadkiel, despite them being at
> opposite extremes of the visible Yesodi ranks.
>
> However, seeing the juxtaposition of classes and people here reminds me
> that Inire is the supplier of cloning and bestifying/anthopofying
> technology with his hands in the khaibits and the anpiels and mastiffmen.
> So he does have something of these abilities, only as lab technology rather
> than an inborn ability like the Hierogrammates.
>
> So, perhaps Rudesind is rather a *clone* of Inire himself, explaining
> their similarity of simian build. This  goes for the other suspects like
> the autocthonous shaman and Isangoma. This also explains how a short-lived
> hierodule has served a thousand years. And we know for sure he has
> memory-transfer potions, gobble-gobble!
>
>
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