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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=biglar1984@gmail.com
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Does anyone think this telepathic-internet might be connected with<BR>>
Cyriacas story?</DIV></DIV>
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idea. My instinct is that Cyriaca’s story relates to a much earlier time,
and she makes no mention of Typhon but refers instead to a machine-dominated
society. But it’s not inconceivable. </DIV></DIV>
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other reason for doubting it is that it seems improbable that Wolfe had
thought of Mamelta when he wrote Cyriaca.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>> On 10/14/11, Gerry Quinn <gerry@bindweed.com>
wrote:<BR>> > We also learn that the inhabitants of Typhon’s Urth (or
maybe just certain<BR>> > classes or occupations) were wired into some
kind of always-on telepathic<BR>> > internet. They did not need to use
normal speech to communicate, and the<BR>> > system was also used for
control: the family of the Monarch danced or<BR>> > stalked through their
dreams. When they were placed in the Whorl, brain<BR>> > operations
were needed to remove the apparatus (whether that consisted of<BR>> >
modified brain tissue or electronics we are not told) associated with
this<BR>> > internet, and to reduce their mental dependence on the
rulers. The latter<BR>> > was not possible to completely
achieve - and thus came about the eventual<BR>> >
political/religious structure of the Whorl - but the surgeons did “as
much<BR>> > as they dared”. Brain centres associated with speech
processing may have<BR>> > also needed to be revamped, or it may be that
the ability to speak “to move<BR>> > my lips and my tongue... while I make
this noise in my throat” was present<BR>> > anyway, though
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