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Kenneth Gorelick pulmon at comcast.net
Fri Jul 25 04:50:13 PDT 2003

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 04:42 AM, Jot Powers wrote:

>>> ISTR that somewhere we hear that lineage goes through the same-sex
>>> parent: mother to daughter, father to son.
>>
>> But Aliera and Adron are of the same lineage, aren't they? Although 
>> Aliera
>> E'Verra doesn't sound bad.
>
> Ok, here is what I wrote about Devera:
>
>> Devera's father is Kieron. This makes for an interesting family tree.
>> If you look at it from a physical perspective, Adron's ancestor is
>> Kieron. Adron is Aliera's father and Devera is Aliera's daughter.
>> So, since Devera is the daughter to her grandfather's ancestor, she's
>> probably her own cousin. It gets even more confusing if you look at it
>> from a soul perspective, as Aliera is Kieron's brother, which would
>> make Aliera her mother and aunt, and Kieron her father and uncle.
>
> Aliera's soul is Adron's NgreatAunt (which is really a cousin)
> although Aliera is Adron's daughter.
>
> I'm convinced that Steven does this just so that anyone trying
> to make a family tree will be immediately recognizable at some
> Con as the the "Crazy Haired Cross-eyed Guy".
>
> Personally, I chalk this up to things like "Time in the Paths"
> and other things that are ambiguous, and are not meant to be
> understood rationally, by either the reader or the author.
>
> -Jot
> -- 
> Jot Powers 	<books at bofh.com> 		http://www.bofh.com/books/
> "I'm upping my standards, so up yours!"
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Why does this remind me of the Kentucky Star Wars joke--"Luke, I am 
your father...and your uncle!
>