Piteous Gate - one last rehash

Georg Schönegger · 29 May 2006, 10:26 · from 2006-May.txt.gz

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From: g.schoenegger at aon.at (Georg =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=F6negger?=)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 12:26:43 +0200
Subject: (urth) Piteous Gate - one last rehash
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> We're also told that the avern -- an extremely deadly plant -- has been
> planted by Father Inire to keep manatees out of the Botanic Gardens, but
> this seems like a rather dire method for keeping out simple sea cows,
> whereas if they were meant to delimit undines and possibly Abaia...well, it
> seems like a much more effective and logical defense.
> 

maybe this has been brought up before, but: is it sure the manatees were
'simple see cows'? i had the opposite impression; nearly every mention
of them refers to their near-human features. i could very well imagine
them to be a kind of proto-undines (in earlier times, seamen even called
them "sirenes").

georg

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