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Date Posted: 02:23:39 09/08/00 Fri
Author: detoured
Subject: I wouldn't expect any less from you HT ;-)
In reply to: hairytoes 's message, "The lone dissenter" on 14:45:47 09/05/00 Tue

I got something different out of this from what you did I guess. I know it's been theorized (or maybe even just speculated) that babies may "know" a lot more when they are infants than any of us will ever find out but as they grow they foerget everything in the first few years. Most people can't remember being babies.

The idea of this story was that Mulder had tapped in to the baby's prenatal thought process and vice versa. Who knows what babies understand in the womb? Why have studies shown that children who were read to in the womb usually end up with higher intelligence?

I thought the Look Who's Talking movies were stupid ther way they were presented with the babies mouths moving as if hey were talking. I didn't see the comparison to this at all. This was an idea about a communication through thought. Buddy doesn't have a voice at all. Mulder is just in tune with the fetus in the womb. And after birth, the baby isn't talking and we aren't hearing him say "dad" as his first word out loud at all. It's all internal thought and its impossible to know what we as humans remember in the first few years of life because by the time we learn to reason fully we lose all memory of our beginning.

Plus the other thing is that more than likely M&S's child will not be an ordinary baby.

I'm confused as to why you say the author waited too long to reveal the "surprise". Don't most stories wait until the end until we find out 'whodunit'? The best ones do IMO.

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