Coya Conyon:
"...found she could control her thoughts, somewhat, but not the tingle through her blood." (p. 342)
Can she control her thoughts? In zazen, we practice awareness, not control, but that is one vast topic.
Scottish ancestry has gone to Hermes, African to Nyanza, and both have returned to Earth in Malcolm Conyon, father of Coya. We are already doing this, as far as we can, on Earth. Andrea, whose parents came from Italy to Morecambe (instead of New York) via Glasgow knows about Italian Scots.
"Sprawled in a lounger, [van Rijn] waved a two-liter tankard of beer he clutched in his hairy left paw." (ibid.)
See "More Beer!"
Have we begun a new thread about references to beer or should we just take it as read that van Rijn does drink a lot of beer?
I will shortly resort not to a temple of Bacchus but to the historic Lancaster Quaker Meeting House where our meditation group hires an upstairs room. Tomorrow: Andrea has told us that he will cook a curry and maybe bake a cake. Life continues to be good for some Earthlings some of the time.
9 comments:
Isn't Van Rijn mixed Indonesian-Dutch?
Kaor, Paul!
I also recall mention in MIRKHEIM of how some fluke of genetics on Earth was making and more people of even the most mixed ancestry look white.
Ad astra! Sean
Kaor, Jim!
Yes, he is, and a Catholic too boot--instead of either Dutch Reformed Calvinist or Muslim.
Ad astra! Sean
That is right about van Rijn and Coya's grandmother was Mexican-Chinese but I was focusing on the ancestries that had gone off Earth and returned.
Steve: light skin is a fairly recent development, about 30K years for H. Sap. Sap., though Neanderthals had it earlier. It's a climatic adjustment to northern hemisphere weather with frequent clouds -- note that the Irish are palest, and it's -really- cloudy there. You need it for production of Vitamin D.
Steve: blue eyes originated in Western Europe, among dark-skinned hunter-gatherers. Gray eyes, blond hair and light skin developed among Ancient North Eurasians, and then via the Yamnaya spread widely in northern Europe and less widely in the Mediterranean.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
In "The Long Remembering" Anderson had Homo sapiens mating often enough with blue eyed Neanderthals often enough that the trait for blue eyes spread to modern humans,.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: that's been disproven; it's a separate mutation.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Aw, shucks! I have a soft spot for Neanderthals and liked the idea of blue eyes coming from them.
Ad astra! Sean
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