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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/09/2014 04:53, Richard Simon
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<div> Let's look at just one thing: Why does Wolfe
harp on the fact that Marsch's eyes are an unusual
> green. That the boy Victor's eyes are an
unusual green. And - even at the cost of some
clunkiness - make sure we know that for Sandwalker's
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I believe there are indeed clues, deliberately
inserted by Wolfe to lead us to the soliution, and
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<div>If 'green is the colour' of Annese eyes, then a
Shadow Child imitating an Annese would take very
good care to have green eyes, no?</div>
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For millenia, apparently this didn't occue to them, while they were
imitating Sandwalker's people who you argue were an ancient race of
humans, who for some reason all have green eyes. <br>
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Then suddenly, as soon as the French land, the Shadow Children put
away their drugs, and become perfect imitators of, not the new
humans, but of Sandwalker's people. If the landing is the proximate
cause, why do they not imitate the French instead?<br>
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Sandwalker's people (the vast majority of the pre-Landing
population: we are told "there are so many of you now and so few of
us") just disappear into the human population. The Shadow Children,
now suddenly successful in looking like Sandwalker's people, become
persecuted abos.<br>
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It still doesn't explain why green eyes are a signifier - if the
ancient humans vastly outnumber the Shadow Children, why is the
signifier anything special? If a race of ancient green-eyed humans
merged with the colonists, you'd expect green eyes everywhere among
the ordinary folk of Sainte Anne.<br>
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And why on Earth would there be two levels of imitation anyway? Why
does a Shadow Child have to imitate and ancient human before he
imitates Marsch. Why is he unable to change his eye colour to that
of a modern-day human (after taking such care to have green eyes
when imitating - for some reason - a poor downtrodden 'abo')? How
did the Shadow Children kick their drug habit? Why does Victor know
he is type 2 alien imitating a human, but has no idea he was
previously type 1 alien imitating type 2? Why does the imitation
take time to master sometimes, and at others is completely
immediate?<br>
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Switching the origin of the Shadow Children and the abos just
creates an expanding wave of inconsistency!<br>
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- Gerry Quinn<br>
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