<HTML><HEAD></HEAD>
<BODY dir=ltr>
<DIV dir=ltr>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt tahoma">
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5">
<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=crushtv@gmail.com
href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">James Wynn</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">>
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
there.</DIV></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"> </DIV></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">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.
</DIV></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"> </DIV></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">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?)</DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I think if Wolfe wanted to indicate that this sort of process took place,
he would not have failed to give such an indication. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>> 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.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>What exactly are the things we need to explain?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>