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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Nicholas=20Gevers?= <vermoulian@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: (whorl) OBW: Yet another Inhumi secret theory Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 23:32:41 More likely, by giving themselves to the inhumi, humans would see to it that the sentience the inhumi imbibed was of a benign, self-sacrificial flavour--a means of rendering the inhumi themselves more benign. --- David Lomax <dlomax@idirect.com> wrote: > All, > > Pardon for going back to a dead horse, stick in > hand, but I just got around to > reading OBW (in preparation for the next which I > believe is coming out soon). > Immediately, I went and read a whole bunch of old > posts from this list which I had > been saving for the occasion. I'm fascinated with > the quest for the Inhumi secret > (which I acknowledge may be unknowable given our > present information). Like most > of you folks, I had rejected the "can't we all just > get along" hypothesis and many > of the other likely candidates. One I haven't seen > suggested (perhaps because I > haven't read _all_ the old posts) has to do with > giving. > > Giving, people giving themselves to others, seems an > important theme for Wolfe. > What if the secret went something like this: if > people were to willingly give > themselves over to the Inhumi, then (1) the Inhumi > wouldn't be able to kill the > people (much as Krait doesn't kill Horn or Horn's > people once Horn has properly > given his word) and (2) the Inhumi would, for some > reason, no longer drink > sentience along with the blood. > > This is not a satisfying theory, mostly because it > seems too simplistic, but I > thought it might spark of someone else's ideas. If > it's a repetition of stuff > that's already been said, my apologies. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.moonmilk.com/whorl/ *To leave the list, send "unsubscribe" to whorl-request@lists.best.com *If it's Wolfe but not Long Sun, please use the URTH list: urth@lists.best.com