Some great points here, but let me refine a bit:<br><br>I'm not saying the inhumi would die, but would devolve back into some other form. Horn explicitly states that if he used the secret, the inhumi would become no more dangerous than crocodiles. So if there is no human population on Green, that might make it more difficult for them to get human food. <br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I think they are capable of surviving by feeding on non-humans. The reason they want humans on Green is so they will be more accessible to inhuma to ensoul their children.<div class="im">
</div></blockquote><div><br>This is what I'm saying! That is it, if there aren't humans on green, it's harder to ensoul their children. Although if Kraits mother took the soul from Sinew, then she must have gone back to Green during Conjunction, and therefore you wouldn't need Landers at all, which kills part of my theory. <br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">No. But it would be harder if landers stopped going to Green entirely. They still have a population on Blue. If stopping the landers to Green were all it took, then I'm sure the Mainframe workers could have figured out a way to have the monitors never schedule trips to Green anymore.<br>
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Anyway, in RTTW Silk receives a word from Pas that it is not necessary for anymore Cargo to disembark the Whorl. He's going to stop making the Cargo miserable there to force them to disembark. So mission accomplished there already.<div class="im">
</div></blockquote><div><br>I don't see why, if Mainframe knew about what was happening on Green, they wouldn't stop the Landers from going to Green anyway. I hardly see why, if they knew what was going on, they wouldn't have stoped it already, so I don't think that tracks.<br>
<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I just can't see a point to this beyond orneriness on Wolfe's part (not that that is not reason enough). There's no actual evidence that I know of that the inhumi don't cross that way. Some readers just find it implausible. But Wolfe is criticized for this all the time.<br>
Anyway, I don't think the landers refuel at the Whorl, do they? So they will eventually stop on their own.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I DO think the Inhumi travel across the void during conjunction, so I'm actually not one of *those* people... And the bit about fuel is intriguing. I wonder how much fuel they have in them? Seems like the Pajarocu lander has made at least several trips....<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hmmm...at first I thought you were going to suggest this quote means that Urth is Green or Blue. That would be a compelling reference, I suppose.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I don't buy the Urth as Green or Blue idea. I see far far too much against the idea, as neat as it is. There is some resonance in the Sewer scene that I'm struggling with yet.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Well, I don't think I can prove this is NOT so. But I don't think the landers are so pivotal as you theory implies.<div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br>I would agree. My post lunch excitement about this idea is fast draining. Must have been a curry buzz or something.<br>
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(and I now DO think it was Silk, with the bit of Pas in him,<br>
that makes the Whorl leave the system)<br>
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Oh wait! You mean this makes you agree with me about this? Then, in that case, it must be so!<br>
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<br></div></div></blockquote><div>I do agree. I think Pas and Silk have bonded. Seriously bonded. And I think removing the Whorl does remove the Past for those on Blue.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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