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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">On the matter of Long Sun laughs (and I don't have the text to hand) but I remember a wonderful passage:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Silk is in his room brooding. Oreb interrupts him with "Silk Good. Fish heads?". Oreb's God ignored him and stared out the window.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OK, that is a brutal description of the scene but it made me laugh aloud. I will dig out the text tonight.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">On the whole monitor changing direction discussion, weird, I was just going through the archives today and came across people discussing this point.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I would align with this idea (thanks to Mantis):</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Well the contexts (being a polite intercity telecom service unit versus being the controling intelligence for a planetary landing vehicle) are different enough that, even if the monitors are virtually identical (i.e., more similar than a tv and a computer display), they would have room to act differently.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0007/0525.shtml">http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0007/0525.shtml</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Something that occurred to me recently, Mucor has a power to project her thoughts. Typhon in BOTNS is able to sense things in some kind of ESP way as well.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Idle speculation but is there a connection? </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is Typhon's power natural or something cooked up for him by Urth scientists, or by some form of alien invention?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is Mucor related to Typhon? Or was Mucor's ability based on Typhon's ability (some kind of genetic engineering based on Typhon's DNA?)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Who knows? But I am re-reading BOTNS at the moment and will pay particular attention to the Typhon chapter to see if I can un-urth any evidence...</FONT></P>
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