On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:15:59 -0700, you wrote: > > > > >>From: lazarus <lazarus33pjf at cox.net> >>To: Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> >>CC: Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com>, "dragaera at dragaera.info" >><dragaera at dragaera.info> >>Subject: Re: The Phoenix succession (was: The Jhereg) >>Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:10:31 -0800 >> >>On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:51:28 -0800, you wrote: >> >> >At 12:42 PM 12/30/2002 -0600, Mia McDavid wrote: >> >>I think we-all are missing something basic here. The Phoenix dies and >>is >> >>reborn. No conception required. I don't know how this would translate >>in >> >>human terms, but the whole speculation about tinkering with genes seems >> >>too complicated. >> > >> >Oh, my goodness. >> > >> >Give the girl a cigar. >> > >> >>Well, dammit, there goes our fun. :-) > >Not quite. We still "don't know how this would translate in human terms," >to use Mia's words. > >I think that there's still something critical that hasn't been brought >on-stage yet. True. Fun still to be had! So, how does this translate into human terms, then? -- lazarus "Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, may waste the memory of the former days." -- King Henry IV, Part ii Act 4, Scene 5