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FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">> On Wed,
Oct 12, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Gerry Quinn
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com"><gerry@bindweed.com></a> wrote:<br>
> > 2. Inhumi are animals, and have no relation to
vines. [It may of course be<br>
> > that particular plants of Green are of some
nutritional significance to the<br>
> > water-breathing juvenile form of the inhumi.]<br>
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> I would say that this is an Earth- (or Urth-) centric
idea. The<br>
> distinction between "plant" and "animal" need not
apply on an alien<br>
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divisions of life seem remarkably similar! The inhumi are
motile and do not photosynthesise; the trees and lianas
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And yet, we are told that the Rajan's staff was an inhumi and that
at night he spoke to it.<br>
It's unexpected, even puzzling. But there it is. Somehow clever
clever Gene has worked it out.<br>
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J.<br>
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