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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=miltonwjackson@gmail.com href="mailto:miltonwjackson@gmail.com">Milton
Jackson</A> <BR></DIV>
<DIV>>I''ve always wondered. Do you guys think Erebus and Abaia actually
exist, or are they perhaps some kind of boogeymen like the Green Knight dreamed
up to instill fear in the land dwellers? They never actually come into the
story, and the logistics of something of their size existing on Earth are rather
hard to grasp. Even living entirely in water, they would be subject to the laws
of gravity as we know them. Gravity on Earth would greatly restrict their
movements and cause the blood pressure needed to keep all their cells nourished
with necessary oxygen<BR>to be astronomical. For these reasons, I've always
wondered if Wolfe ever intended them to be legitimate characters in the
story at all. </DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I don't see any real reason to disbelieve it.
Typhon confirms their existence, as someone else does (the Autarch or Jonas, I'm
not sure which) and one of them seems to control Ascia. Baldanders is
an aspiring sea giant, and Juturna exists too. Perhaps Erebus and Abaia
are not truly as large as mountains, but there are certainly large intelligent
creatures in the sea.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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