Some days, there is too much else going on for new blog posts.
In what is left of Chapter V, Dan and Caitlin discuss personal matters against the Demetrian backdrop summarized in recent posts.
On Demeter, there are garms. On Avalon in Poul Anderson's Technic History, there are draculas. In Larry Niven's Smoke Ring, there are large birds whose mating ritual earns them the name, "flashers." Human beings will take words to other worlds and give them new meanings.
Chapter VI, a second one-pager, is narrated by another "avatar" which has been caterpillar, pupa and moth. An insect is conscious, unlike a tree. This insect describes its sensations at each stage of its life cycle, then adds:
"...One gathered me up, taking me back into Oneness, and presently We knew what my whole life had been since I lay in the egg." (p. 55)
In this second case, the selected organism is conscious of its "Oneness" with the Others. We do not know the whole story yet although we might be starting to guess.
The human story continues in Chapter VII which is maybe where we will go tomorrow.
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