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Subject: Re: Clarke's _Imperial_Earth_: A question
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Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 16:38:23 EST
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In article <8838@ucla-cs.ARPA> Assoc for Computing Machinery  <acm> writes:
>I was re-reading Arthur C. Clarke's _Imperial_Earth_ and I have a question
>about the ending.  After Duncan returns back to Titan, the child-clone is
>fair-skinned and blonde.  Does this mean that he had Karl cloned or, somehow,
>when they "fixed" his genetic defects, this made the child caucasian and
>blonde?   Comments?
>
>David Lee
>

  No matter what the answer may be, a better question (and I guess, my
real question) is why did he do what he did?

David Lee