Lives of the Great Beasts

Gerry Quinn · 03 Jul 2010, 17:59 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 18:59:55 +0100
Subject: (urth) Lives of the Great Beasts
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From: "Jonathan Goodwin" <joncgoodwin at gmail.com>
> If you're also suggesting, as I think you might be, that a title
> modeled on Plutarch or Vasari would be inappropriate for still-living
> beasts and would be better applied to their vassals, perhaps the Group
> of Seventeen, who might well be thought of as magicians, that's one
> thing. I don't see why they would die, either, though. The title would
> be appropriate if they change while growing as much as I had earlier
> assumed, though.

'Group of Severnteen' seems more like the self=selected name of a communist 
cadre to me.

- Gerry Quinn

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