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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=crushtv@gmail.com href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">James Wynn</A> </DIV>
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face=Calibri><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">> Lee
is right that we read Wolfe the same way (the right way). And I <BR>>
absolutely agree that the Neighbors are some of the trees on Blue <BR>>
(probably the ancestors of all of them), and the inhumi are the vines. I
<BR>> don't know how Wolfe (being the writer he is) was likely to be more
<BR>> overt about that. I'm just really unsatisfied with how you got
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face=Calibri><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">How do you
determine the right way to read Wolfe? I would tend to go by results, i.e.
consistent interpretations that make sense in terms of ALL the text, and not
just mysterious snippets interpreted in exotic ways. </FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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face=Calibri><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If Wolfe
wanted to write about a world where animals and plants are close cousins and can
rapidly evolve into one another, perhaps by epigenetic means, it would have been
very easy for him to do so. He’s writing science fiction, after all. He could
very easily have indicated how the process happens with simple plants and
animals, perhaps by having a farmer on Blue talk about it, or a farmer or hunter
on Green (I take it we are supposed to believe that evolution took this course
on both planets?)</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Wolfe didn’t do anything like
this. I think the lianas are just metaphors, like Sandwalker’s ‘tree’ in Fifth
Head. They work fine as metaphors. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I think if Wolfe wanted to
indicate that this sort of process took place, he would not have failed to give
such an indication. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"><BR><FONT face=Calibri><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">> On the other hand, yours
is the ONLY theory that ANYONE has put to <BR>> together to explain
it--including me. When I posted your theory, I had <BR>> hoped I would
eventually have three or four theories of similar <BR>> comprehensiveness to
post. Never happened.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"><FONT face=Calibri><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">What exactly are the things
we need to explain?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"><FONT face=Calibri><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">- Gerry
Quinn</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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