IN> the Redemption of Lilith

[Steven Ehrbar]

On 9/5/06, Jonathan Lang <dataweaver at gmail.com> wrote:
> Apparently, you're taking "recreate" to mean "bring back an individual
> who has been destroyed".

Er, no, I'm not.  I'm simply taking it to mean something closer than
just a random new celestial that happens to have Choir and a single
Force incommon with an old one.  If an Archangel were to merely take
one Ethereal Force donated by a Servitor and made a new angel from it,
nobody would say that was a re-creation of the still-existing angel.
If, however, extensive effort were put into the Force configuration
and the granting of initial abilities to match the original angel as
closely as possible, that could reasonably be called a re-creation of
the first angel -- perhaps even if none of the first angel's Forces
were included.

> Note that Final Trumpet doesn't actually have Lilith bringing Mira
> back, per se; they make a very clear point that the result of Lilith
> and Blandine's intervention is a _new_ Bright

Well, yes.  And a clone is a new person, not the original person, as
different as an identical twin.  But the ability of your average woman
to reproduce does not imply an ability to reproduce a clone of her
first child.

-- 
Steven Ehrbar ehrbar at gmail.com