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> The family pictured above, the Fugates of eastern Kentucky, actually have blue-tinged skin, the result of a condition called methemoglobinemia.
> It's caused by a type of hemoglobin that can't carry oxygen through the blood-and because the blood isn't oxygenated, it makes skin look blue, lips look purple, and blood look chocolate-colored.
> While the genetic condition didn't seem to have any notable health impact, it did affect the Fugate family psychologically, causing them to retreat from public life.
> As more became known about genetics and the consequences of reproducing with family members, the Fugates' blue skin became almost like a scarlet letter or an indigo letter, as it were.
> Though the family thought the doctor was completely crazy-after all, how could injecting them with another blue substance make them less blue?-they allowed Cawein to give it a shot.
> "It worked almost instantaneously. ''Within a few minutes, the blue color was gone from their skin," the doctor said.
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It was a book I read in middle school, some ten years ago. I’m trying to find it because the author of that book wrote a more serious book that I really enjoyed, but I also can’t remember that title. In that book, there was some racial prejudice to Vietnamese/Cambodian immigrants in your typical white town. I believe there was a car accident caused by one of the immigrants and killed a white boy, and the white narrator had to come to terms with his own prejudices. Anywho, any suggestions are welcome!
Gaal, Demerezel and Salvor were all men in the books. I feel torn about the gender swap (as a woman). On the one hand I think these actresses are good and it's not their fault that the gender of the character they play was changed. Also, basic Cinematology makes it clear that people identify mostly with film characters of the same gender themselves (according to my friend who majored on this, in the 90s). So, in order to attract more female viewers, perhaps it makes a bit sense to change the genders. (However I completely reject the idea that women aren't smart enough to look beyond a character's gender, in an epic work like Asimov's foundation... Plus, there are plenty of interesting female characters in later books)
So those were the positives of changing gender of three key characters.
Negatives is that it is extremely infuriating when somebody's gender is swapped for suspected woke-pandering. Nobody is changing the gender of female characters in books aimed at women, are they? So why do this to sci-fi --- a genre that has more male authors and more male than female fans?
Salvor is the worst case so far imp. I have a specific dislike for female characters that can beat up men bigger than themselves - because that idea is so alien to almost all women. There are things we value about ourselves as women. Things we know that we are better at than men. But being able to beat up males just isn't one of those things -- for pretty much all women. So it irritates me that Salvor Hardin was made a physically violent woman, when in fact, he was a peace-loving man in the books. It doesn't matter how much I appreciate the female actress. She could have been given another interesting role in the series where she would have been a much better match and not a deviation from the character created by Asimov.
Talk me out of this if you have a good argument for why the gender swap makes sense! Or if there are more pros than cons. I really want to love the series but the gender swap of no less than 3 key characters really triggered me. How can I see beyond that?
Welcome to the book club! We'll be discussing the remainder of A Woman of the Iron People! You may have also noticed we didn't vote on books for next month. That's because we will once again be taking December off but will have a friendly chat about our year in reading on December 15th. There will be a full post reminder about it early next week.
A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason
>Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the Star Sigma Draconis which they have begun exploring. But the factions on the mother ship hovering above the planet may create an unintended chaos for both the life on the planet and the humans exploring it. As the anger increases on the ship, the ground crew becomes more and more affected by the conflict and begins to rely on their instincts to keep the project moving forward. Unexpected danger plagues the mission as Lixia is determined to expand her knowledge.
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It looks like the title is Cyber Mind, but I couldn't find a book with that name.
It has a white cover with colorful ink blots and a picture of a woman in black and white with a bar over her eyes. The spine is black with a white cursive of the title, which I can't make out.
It clicked for me when I read ‘Hallucinations’ by Oliver Sacks. I learned that you can have hallucinations that fit into the existing landscape, like a man walking in with your friend that seems normal, but just isn’t real. I think sasquatch is an archetype. That means a core concept of consciousness. The first stories spoke of him (Enkidu). The green man. The wild man. Archetypes are exposed by the fact that they exist across all cultures, across all times. This is a perfect example. That means, for me, that it is indeed real. But not an animal. Maybe something closer to the Native American definition. Spiritual. But people do see it. It does change people’s lives. People do fall off cliffs and get lost in the forest running from it. Those experiences are real, and driven by something as real as your hand, so every report is valid, and worth knowing. But they are experiencing something from the depths of the subconscious. And who knows, maybe it does manifest into physical form... or maybe multiple people can experience it at once, but there is no proof and never will be, and so its a moot point. To assert that footprints aren’t fakable is naive. The pg film is great, especially with Gimlin’s testimony and character. But who’s to say Patteeson didnt have someone waiting for them? Or maybe a creature manifested from the ether in that moment. The point is that as far as proof, it might as well be an interdimensional shapeshifter from Xanue, and you ain’t catchin that on camera.
Whatever it is, it’s beyond our power to control or catch. But we yearn to anyway, why? Because that archetype exists within us, and points out something missing in our lives, when it screams at us. Is it a disconnection from the wild? A disconnection from society? Are we bigfooters really just like what we study? Alone, outside of society, afraid to interact, but lonely enough to keep making ourselves seen? Or maybe it represents a father figure? Strong and protective. My friends used to call it ‘Big Gay’ and say it was a subconscious gay fantasy of a big muscular naked guy running through the forest. I countered by turning on the tv and pointing out the big men running around the football field in tights.
I’d love to have a group that is focused around why we have this need to search this thing out, as opposed to trying to actually find it. Because, for someone that really wants to find it.. looking inside seems to be the only real way.
I'm trying to remember the name of this book I read several years ago. The book focuses on a woman and alternates between the present set on a (sheep?) farm in Ireland or Scotland and in reverse chronological order reveling her past in Australia where she ran away from home. There is also a subplot about some sort of monster in the woods in the present day setting and it is never shown to the reader but the main character meets it at the very end.
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> Benjamin "Benjy" Stacy so frightened maternity doctors with the color of his skin - "As Blue as Lake Louise" - that he was rushed just hours after his birth in 1975 to University of Kentucky Medical Center.
> As a transfusion was being readied, the baby's grandmother suggested to doctors that he looked like the "Blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek." Relatives described the boy's great-grandmother Luna Fugate as "Blue all over," and "The bluest woman I ever saw."
> The most detailed account, "Blue People of Troublesome Creek," was published in 1982 by the University of Indiana's Cathy Trost, who described Benjy's skin as "Almost purple."
> Most of blue Fugates never suffered any health effects and lived into their 80s and 90s. "If you are between 1 percent and 10 percent, no one knows you have an abnormal level and this might be the case in a lot of unsuspecting patients," he said.
> One of Martin and Elizabeth Fugate's blue boys, Zachariah, married his mother's sister.
> As coal mining arrived in Kentucky in 1912 and the Fugates moved outside of Troublesome Creek, the blue people began to disappear.
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