Re: RE: IN> San Agustín Bald Ape

[William Keith]

>I have no idea what either of you are talking about ...
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>Janet Anderson

They're describing creatures from parallel worlds, making In Nomine 
parachronic a la the Infinite Worlds setting.

The Skunk Ape is a humanoid from a world where we evolved slightly 
differently.  The Bald Ape is a human from *our* world, as observed by 
a celestial reporter in that other world.  Note the Words of the 
Tethers: Science and Thunder replace Technology and Lightning, or 
possibly vice versa.

The remark on the DNA refers to a fact about life on Earth, which is 
that all living things on our planet have DNA that has a spiral 
twisting in a particular direction: "right-handedly," as it were.  This 
DNA manipulates amino acids and other molecues we primarily obtain 
from, or construct from pieces found in, other living beings -- which 
themselves have right-handed DNA, and thus produce molecules which, 
when there is a preference for "handedness" among two forms of the same 
chemical, pick a particular one.  We could not digest food from a 
biosphere based on left-handed DNA, nor could animals from such a 
biosphere survive on food from ours.

So the skunk apes are from a differenent biosphere... i.e., a different 
world.  Apparently they arrive due to some weird effect of the 
electrical grid and the phases of the moon.

William