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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/08/2014 18:28, Marc Aramini
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<div dir="ltr">are these leaves the Shadow Children chew from the
carapace corpse trees of the aborigines in the final stage of
their life cycle? If that is the case, perhaps the aboriginal
cells have two means of surviving: through standard macrocosmic
sexual recombination and then through cellular mimicry when they
are consumed and chewed, mimicking the host cells and allowing
cellular reproduction to occur in this fashion with
undifferentiated cells. Would be an interesting case of crazy
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No, they are from a herb with warty grey leaves and yellow flowers.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">eastwind has no testicles but survives - the
life cycle of the shadow children does not involve sexual
reproduction. I also know Eastwind is an abo, but he
SYMBOLIZES the shadow children's propagation cycle in the
story's conclusion, while Sandwalker symbolizes the
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He survives, but the ill-named Sweetmouth laughs at him because as a
eunuch he has not developed secondary sexual characteristics.
Sandwalker is better equipped in that regard - he has sex with Seven
Girls Waiting.<br>
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<div>my mistake, replaced, supplanted. I KNOW
he was bitten by the cat, Gerry. Why even say
that? Victor is only a part of the equation
because the cat had a kind of affinity for
Victor like the Shadow Children do for whoever
with their psychic empathy, but it is the bite
that brings the fragment of that psychic
connection into Marsch and "replaces" him. If
there is any of Victor in Marsch, it is
through the psychic resonance the cat had with
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<div>I think of Victor and Marsch as two
distinct entities, and Victor DIES in a scene
you believe to be a fabrication, a fall. But
Wolfe wants us to believe Victor takes
Marsch's place and assumes his shape, because
that is the first false solution to the
mystery without touching on the life cycle of
the Shadow Children that underlies the point
of "A Story". It seems Sandwalker the abo
lives, as it seems Victor replaces Marsch, but
Marsch is actually but a vector for an
infection which can rise up on air currents
and float in the wind (Eastwind).<br>
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Two men enter the wilds, one man leaves. The other body is not to
be found. I think it's reasonable to doubt the recorded details of
death.<br>
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Victor: "I only had to make my voice like his, and look older". (He
had already learned to speak like him: the original Marsch remarks
on it, in his notebook.) How do you explain this, if Victor did not
replace Marsche?<br>
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- Gerry Quinn<br>
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