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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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Subject: Re: Clarke's _Imperial_Earth_: A question
Message-ID: <6899@duke.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 13:47:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 13:47:31 1986
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In article <8838@ucla-cs.ARPA> acm@ucla-cs.UUCP 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


*I* thought it meant that -- while fixing the genetic defects -- Duncan
had the kid's hair and skin color changed as a tribute to Karl, his 
once-upon-a-time true love.  Not *caused by* fixed the defects, simply
in addition to.

Interesting enough (at least for me) I just noticed the other day that
there is a black astrophysicist is Fall of Moondust named Duncan
MacKenzie  (spelling errors excepted.)
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			Charlie Martin
			(...mcnc!duke!crm)