It exists. It's just that plant leaves aren't what you think they are- they have microorganisms on them that produce the effects of communion. The same reason you ignore the death scene of victor, Gerry. It 's okay when you ignore narrative details for narrative reasons, like Trenchard saying he was descended from the east wind. This is why I don't want to talk to you about this at great length- you will never be convinced because your misprision is cast in iron, and you are exasperated by what you perceive as mine. And that's okay. <div>
<br>On Wednesday, August 6, 2014, Gerry Quinn <<a href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 05/08/2014 18:50, Tony Ellis wrote:<br>
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Actually, they [Shadow Children] do crop up a few times in the third novella. As well as the various references to child-sized indigenous people, there is: "...and the Shadow Children of course came to steal by evening... there are never as many of them as they think, because some are only in the minds of others..." - VRT, interviewed by Marsch. and "The question is not, as I once thought, how much the thoughts of the Shadow Children influence reality, but how much our own do." - VRT's writings, sometime after incarceration.<br>
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Fair enough. The last one is interesting. He immediately references the original Marsche's interview with Mrs. Blount, in which she describes playing with abos as a child, and her father shooting some. I'm not sure how that fits with his observation above.<br>
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- Gerry Quinn<br>
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