City on Green

António Marques · 31 Dec 2010, 23:45 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:45:35 +0000
Subject: (urth) City on Green
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Hi Roy,

You're right in your frustration at the way some behave sometimes; all 
the same I don't think everything is worthless fancy. If I bother 
pointing out problems in some theories that appear here, it's solely in 
the hope that they'll be improved on, or interesting alternatives 
developed. Granted, it is not well received, but on the whole I think it 
kind of works.

I don't think Green is Urth either, though obviously that's 
unfalsifiable: given enough leeway (and time is relative so we have as 
much as we want to) anything can turn into anything else (I think some 
contributors here haven't yet gotten that). I do think the relationship, 
if any, betweem the City of the Inhumi and Nessus is worth exploring. 
Your objections would be unsurmountable if we were discussing a short 
period of earthly history, but we're not.

- When did the Neighbours leave the scene? Those buildings won't last 
another thousand years - that means they can't be that old, or that 
wouldn't be remarkable - what are the odds that the Whorl would reach 
Blue/Green almost at the same time, broadly speaking, that the 
Neighbours have vanished?

- Again, what the hell is the purpose of the City of the Inhumi (pace 
Benewicz). Heck, we don't have a city on Blue, where the Neighbours came 
from, but we have an impressive one on Green?

- What's the meaning/etymology of Nessus? Nexus is a superb association. 
What's the purpose of our being told repeatedly how vast the city is?

A nice year 2 all.

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