Re: Humans as raccoons?

"mimus" <tinmimus99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 02 May 2008 20:01:50 +0000, Wayne Throop wrote:
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>> Childhood's end is sort of an "uplift" scenario
>
> "Sort of" is right.
>
> It's, been, a, _long_, _long_, time, but didn't all the "old humans" get
> exterminated at the end, in some sorta psychically-kindled nuclear
> holocaust?
>
> That hardly seemed uplifting or any testimony to the powers or morals of
> the "Overmind" crowd to me (I guess the "Overmind" was a Nietzschean, 
> huh?).
>


I don't believe the "old humans" were destroyed per say.  One group 
committed suicide when they realized their children weren't 'human'.  It's

been awhile since I read it but I believe that the "new humans" just let 
their parents die on their own and no old humans were being born.  I do
seem 
to remember that the "new humans" had caused  damage to Earth itself but 
their parents were already passed on.

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Paul Howard  (Alias Drak Bibliophile)
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