: I think that Fetches being energy beings probably send
: electrical impulses to your brain which lets you
: understand them rather that hearing them. Prehaps your
: brain interprets it has the most appealing voice
: possible, or prehaps this just refers to them speaking
: in your head.
That's an interesting idea, and it might explain while we (the observers) never actually hear the Fetch; they're not manipulating our brains.
Another explanation of the "angelic voice" might be that because Fetch did not originally have a spoken language, they had to figure out how to vibrate air on the spot, and they chose the simplest method of a sine-wave vibration, which sounds like a tuning fork--a perfect tone with no "roughness". That is, to a Fetch, adding roughness to its voice would actually require extra work (slipping some overtones in). In his Space Trilogy, C.S. Lewis has his angels ("eldila") do something similar. Not humanoid but simply bars of light, their voices have no timbre because they construct them consciously rather than using a ready-made resonator cavity like corporeal beings do.
: As for Trow.. I don't think they talk a lot =)
But if you ask them a question about history, they never *ever* stop..
--SiliconDream
