Atlantis and Gondwanaland

David Stockhoff · 05 Jan 2011, 00:28 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:28:01 -0500
Subject: (urth) Atlantis and Gondwanaland
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Nice! Yes, that line has the ring of a poet singing about his own ancestors.

On 1/4/2011 3:00 PM, Tony Ellis wrote:
> Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> Fair enough point about the source of the names.  But they do refer to the
>> passers-by as their brothers.  Aliens *might* say that of humans, but it
>> would be a bit insulting to Sandwalker ;-)
>>
>> They also say "It is a long time since we took a Shadowfriend from among the
>> native population."
> They also say "'we are taller than you, and stronger. And wrapped in
> terrible glory... our glance withers, and we sing death to our
> enemies."
>
> None of this is true. The reality, as Sandwalker muses, is that they
> are bent and weak and ill-looking, and run from men.
>
> The Shadow Children are crackheaded fantasists. They like to *think*
> they are the humans. Later it is the Old Wise One himself who rebuts
> this.
>
> My reading is that it would be quite natural for a race of telepathic,
> emphatic shapechangers to mistakenly believe that they are the thing
> they have tried to imitate.
>


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