Ascians' Thematic Purppose

don doggett · 31 Jan 2006, 02:59 · from 2006-January.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:59:34 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Ascians' Thematic Purppose
In-Reply-To: <012b01c625fe$39f29d40$0301a8c0 at wdw.disney.com>
Message-ID: <20060131025934.31128.qmail at web32405.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

You could also think of them as slaves to ASCII, that
is, their computers and technology (possibly this
influences their language as well?).  A somewhat
prescient notion to judge from all the cel phone
lights that come on in the theater when my wife and I
are trying to enjoy a movie. :(

Just my 2cents and a half

Don

--- James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> >Didn't Wolfe claim a classical origin for the word
> > Ascian?
> 
> Yes, Ascian means "shadowless". Since the Ascians
> work for Erebus (which is
> the "darkness of Tartaros" according to Hesiod),
> they are ironically without
> a shadow, because they are in total darkness. To
> review this discussion, see
> here
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0208/
>
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0208/1509.txt.shtml
>
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0208/1510.txt.shtml
>
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0208/1512.txt.shtml
>
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0208/1515.txt.shtml
> etc.etc.etc.
> 
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