Re: [Plug] At the risk of getting flamed to my dying day, I'm going to posea question...

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

Now that is a great series of books.  I read them a few years ago, and still
haven't found anything that captured my imagination as well as those did.

One day we may just log on to the net and meet Jane eye to eye.


k

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On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Martin DiViaio wrote:

> The best response I can make about this is from Orson Scott Card's
> Xenocide...
> 
> 
> <The strangest thing about humans is the way they pair up, males and
> females. Constantly at war with each other, never content to leave
> each other alone. They never seem to grasp the idea that males and
> females are completely different species with completely different
> needs and desires, forced to come together only to reproduce.>
> <Of course you feel that way. Your mates are nothing but mindless
> drones, extensions of yourself, without their own identity.>
> 
> <We know our lovers with perfect understanding. Humans invent an
> imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their
> bed.>
> 
> <That is the tragedy of language, my friend. Those who know each other
> only through symbolic representation are forced to imagine each
> other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often
> wrong.>
> 
> <That is the source of their misery.>
> 
> <And some of their strength, I think. Your people and mine, each for
> our own evolutionary reasons, mate with vastly unequal partners. Our
> mates are alway, hopelessly, our intellectual inferiors. Humans mate
> with beings who challenge their supremacy. They have conflict between
> mates, not because their communication is inferior to ours, but
> because they commune with each other at all.>
> 
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