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Oh THAT'S why I was on hiatus. Right. Hiatus Mode re-engaged.

If you accept the theology of the Count of Years, the protection is Iainos's foresight, chiefly useful against the ktuvoks, though it protects against fallen humans as well.

From an evolutionary perspective, however, the iliu have been one among several Thinking Kinds for hundreds of thousands of years, and the adaptation protects against all the rest. And against male iliu if necessary-- some might be crazy or evil. (The present nature of iliu society isn't any guarantee that their pre-civilized state was so harmonious.)

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, a Parallel World where cyborgs rule.

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"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."

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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
--Hemingway

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did you send enough shit to guarantee victory?

Or perhaps they can be employed to provide certain males with a certain level of pleasure? I mean, I assume the scales are sharp and don't have to close all the way.

This is probably too much information.

AFAIK rape is not an animal trait. Only homo sapiens commits rape. Perhaps the behavior of ancient ilii was closer to man's than it now is.

What is the survival value of the labial scales? It looks non-existent to me, unless the rapists used to kill their victim after the act. Perhaps the ktuvoks (or even the ancient ilii) ate their victim afterwards? Sex stimulates the appetite!

Another hypothesis: the scales close after the sexual intercourse, lethally hurting the male. The female iliu, now impregnated, doesn't need the male anymore. After she castrated and disabled him with her labial scales, she easily overpowers him and eats him, like a .

A psychiatrist could probably find meanings in this which Mark hadn't even noticed. American women are often described as femmes castratrices in French literature

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Oh THAT'S why I was on hiatus. Right. Hiatus Mode re-engaged.

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Oh THAT'S why I was on hiatus. Right. Hiatus Mode re-engaged.

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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

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did you send enough shit to guarantee victory?

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U bronazda Lin, broZuspabimaded guze ner liuringemeni!

I thought it was "Old Testament" for a moment.

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"Ez amnar o amnar e cauč."
- Daneydzaus