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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=severiansola@hotmail.com
href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">Lee Berman</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:33 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=urth@urth.net
href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> (urth) S&S vs. SF in BotNS</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> An excellent point. Along with all the other persistent
faerie/magic elements from human<BR>> mythology, cannibalism belongs in this
book along with vampires, giants, shapeshifting, <BR>> etc. I'll even assert
that the only kind of cannibalism among humans is "spiritual". I <BR>> don't
know any examples of cultural prescription of cannibalism for the sake of
nutrition.</DIV>
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<DIV>According to Wikipedia: “<FONT face="Times New Roman">Cannibalism was
widespread in the past among humans in many parts of the world, continuing into
the 19th century in some isolated </FONT><A title=Australasia
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">South Pacific</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">
cultures, and to the present day in parts of tropical Africa. In a few cases in
insular </FONT><A title=Melanesia
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanesia"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Melanesia</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">,
indigenous flesh-markets existed.</FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman">”</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">And of course we know of cases when
shipwrecked sailors or other groups of isolated survivors ate human flesh to
survive.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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