From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!SPEAR@Wharton-10
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: SW Fathers -- Rebuttal to myself
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.86
Posted: Sun Dec 12 07:34:00 1982
Received: Tue Dec 14 02:14:16 1982

From:  SPEAR at Wharton-10 (Daniel Spear)

Inspired by another letter in the current digest, I must offer an alternate
explanation for the Darth/OB1 controversy.  One limitation, imposed by
our biological structure, granted, we are imposing on this discussion is
the idea that a person has only one father.  There is never any mention
of Luke's mother (or, as was mentioned, anyone else's father).  What if
it becomes conventional to refer to the person one is cloned from as
his father.  Then we get this scenario.
	Luke's "father" (the one OB1 refers to, and who is Uncle Owen's
brother) was a contemporary of OB1, who is old enough to be Luke's
grandfather.  He was cloned to produce Darth Vader, referre