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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In the first place, it's by no means certain that
the Neighbours can dream travel in the same way as Silkhorn + Inhumi, although
they may be able to do other things like shift dimensions. But let us
accept that dream travel is possible for them. They still could not have
reached the Whorl that way, as they were never there before. Nor could
they have brought inhumi to infect the Whorl, because inhumi in dream travel
become akin to those whose spirits they have stolen. An inhumu who
travelled to the Whorl would have been a Neighbour there, just as dream
travelling inhumi we meet in the books become human. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>They appear to have had spacecraft (called
'landers' by Silkhorn). They must have used such a technology to reach
Green where they met the inhumi. Again, they could not have dream
travelled there, and if they could it would have happened earlier, during a
pre-technological phase of their history. The Neighbours at the time of
the Whorl's advent are technologically aware, detecting the Whorl as
it approached their system, and recognising it as a hollowed out
asteroid. We could not currently do so well.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>And again, irrespective of the tevhnology, we are
*told* what happened, are we not? And I have not seen any better
explanation proposed.. I know soime list members pay little heed to such
matters (a similar case is the origin of the Shadow Children and the Abos in
_Fifth Head of Cerberus_). My feeling is that one can very easily
misinterpret Wolfe by searching too hard for trickery in his books. Wolfe
may like to tell the key elements of his stories only once, briefly and
obliquely - but tell them he does.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: (urth) The Book of the Long
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class=gmail_quote>The Neighbours, by contrast, had legitimate
spacecraft.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR> They did? </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Yeah, I would've thought they'd do their 'dream-travel' gig.</DIV>
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<DIV>-DOJP<BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2011/9/20 António Pedro Marques <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
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class=gmail_quote>Gerry Quinn wrote (19-09-2011 23:12):
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class=gmail_quote>The Neighbours, by contrast, had legitimate
spacecraft.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV>They did?
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