From: "tom" 
Subject: Re: (urth) terraforming or something else?
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:10:09 GMT


maa32 writes:

> And if people were doubled somehow, and the planet doubled as well through 
> some kind of mirror reality created through Inire's mirror universe, might not 
> they appear doubled in limbs, too?  As the vanished people do?  Have people 
> gone up one dimension, and as a result become "weird" looking?

Maybe I'm just stating the obvious here, but the "doubled" people
seem right out of Aristophanes speech in the _Symposium_.  See:
http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext99/sympo10.txt.  The Neighbors
are then the "old guard" - they're the best the classical world
could come up with, yet have failed to meet the challenge of the
inhumi.  It's time now for Christianity to have a go at it.  Where
do the Neighbors go?  Into mythology.

> Marc Aramini

Tom

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