On Dec 12, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Philip Hart wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > >> On 12/12/05, Kenneth Gorelick <pulmon at mac.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Dec 12, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Philip Hart wrote: >>> >> >>>> >>>> Anyway, Zerika having returned from the Paths seems like sufficient >>>> arising for anything more to seem de trop. And, unless she's got a >>>> magically perfect genome, anything less than a flock of Phoenix >>>> isn't >>>> going to provide a self-sustainingly diverse genetic population. >>> >>> Going by analogy, perhaps Freemartins are not unknown among the >>> Lyorn? >>> >> >> I don't understand what you are trying to say here. > > Ditto. Free martinis? (Aerich as Athos might well appreciate > those.) Freemasons? Free Martians? Freemartins are the result of parthenogenesis--one egg, no sperm, no waiting, no wooing.