Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 15:20:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jerry Friedman 
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Woodhenge without abos


--- David Duffy  wrote:
> There is little doubt that there were abos.  It is more the melancholy
> fact, that just as on our world, all evidence of their occupation is
> intentionally (and/or incidentally) destroyed by colonists, so that even
> the museums are filled with lies.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.  On our world, many languages and
cultures and some ethnic groups have been wiped out, but I don't think
all the evidence has disappeared.  Or were you thinking of the fairies
that Marsch mentions?

> One thing about Short Sun is that there
> is an honourable handover of sorts (speaking of which, if the inhumi are
> an echo or mirror of human nature now, what were they like when they
> mirrored the Neighbours?).

I saw this as real escapism.  Wouldn't it be great to live on land
that hadn't been stolen?
...

Jerry Friedman

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