Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:52:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Straight 
Subject: Re: (urth) TBOTSS and colonialism

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:

> But remind me what the inhumi were to the Neighbors.  Aside from being a
> pain--they were a bother, weren't they?

One of the Neighbors (or maybe it was Silkhorn) said that the Neighbors
made the Inhumi their slaves, and thereby brought their own ruin.

I think one of the temptations Silkhorn rejects is to do the same thing.  
He seems to be able to exert some kind of influence over the inhumi.  (By
loving them?)  Is it possible he could have enslaved the inhumi, and in
doing so made himself a monster, and in doing so made them even more
monsterous?  Is that why he provokes Junangu into attacking him?  Lest he
and the other inhumi fall under whatever spell he's woven over Jahlee?

-Rostrum



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