<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jeff Wilson <jwilson@clueland.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 22, 2013 3:29 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) Thea's Identity<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><br>On Mon, April 22, 2013 07:12, Lee Berman wrote:<br>> Interesting that you mention "Vikings" because in my experience, there is<br>> a surprisingly<br>> large population of nordic-descended people in Chile and Argentina.<br>> Perhaps the insertion<br>> of tall exultants in the Commonwealth is meant to allegorize the<br>> difference between them and<br>> the shorter, swarthier native population of earthian southern S. America.<br>> Conversely, it makes<br>> me wonder how Gene Wolfe felt among the native population of Korea.<br><br>Remember, he attended an all-white military academy (a figurative if not<br>literal citadel) in the middle of Texas, itself a place where Europeans<br>were injected into the midst of the existing Mexican population<br>(eclectics) who themselves had displaced most of the original indian
and<br>Aztec, etc inhabitants, who play the part of the autocthons.<br><br><br>---I'd forgotten about the eclectics. They muddy the issue a bit, but IIRC they are also dark, probably darker than the exultants, who are probably not as blond as the autochthons. I assume the name comes from their having absorbed or blended many genetic "types."<br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>