past The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 Feb 2002 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3001 Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. ============================================================================== maa32 — 27 Feb 2002, 05:29 Jerry - also, right around this time in Return to the Whorl Hoof talks about how the voice of his father fades out like it was spoken "long ago" in a place "far away" during the transition. In other words, the transition does invoke some sense of the past, not the present, and I think "ancient" and "old" reinforces this. Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------