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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Could there be a Gnarly Man in current times?
Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 21:42:36 -0700
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In article <871q6axrin.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere>,
 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

> Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I feel like throwing in that modern humans have some Neanderthal DNA.
> > 23andMe tells me that I have more markers than 99% of their customer
> > base, which probably puts me around 2% caveman.
> 
> YADATROT:
> 
> That always reminds of The Seeking Sword, a crude weapon somehow
> imbued with discrimination between a racial/species distinction that
> has become completely lost and merged in the modern genetic pool.  But
> not for the sword or the entity/power that inhabits it and is,
> millennia later, still bent on vengeance.

IIRC, the shaman who created it (and who animates it) wasn't Neanderthal.

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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