Recent human crash-landing on Sainte-Anne

Gerry Quinn · 08 Jan 2011, 02:01 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 02:01:15 -0000
Subject: (urth) Recent human crash-landing on Sainte-Anne
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From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>

>>Andrew Mason: Two things that might support the 'recent landing' theory at 
>>least if
> '>A Story' is taken as basically factual. One is the names Atlantis,
>>Gondwanaland,etc., which certainly were not used in Atlantis or
>>Gondwanaland; these are names that modern people might come up with if
>>they want to think of themselves as ancient. The other, which I find
>>really striking, is the name 'John'. I can't see why prehistoric
>>people, or those influenced by them, would call themselves John.
>
> From my perspective this is evidence to the contrary. We must understand 
> that "A Story"
> in one way or another is translated, like BotNS.
>
> Why is the name "John" used? Indeed a good question, in my opinion. I take 
> the most
> fantastic view and that is that Shadow Children, or their source material, 
> are essentially
> immortal. How can you kill a shadow? When Shadow Children die, what do 
> they mean? Not the
> same thing as we mean for death, I suspect. Perhaps "taking another form" 
> is meant.

If you always lean towards the most fantastic view, and also get bent out of 
shape whenever people disagree with you, you are apt to have a hard time.

I would have thought that there is good evidence that for the Shadow 
Children, death is much the same as it is for us.  Death for them means 
dinner for the Marshmen, and the last Shadow Child is not inclined towards 
this fate.

"I hear your song," the Shadow Child said, "and I wish to live too.  I am 
not, perhaps of your blood, but I wish to live."
[--]
 "Nothing is worse than that I should die," he says, and breaks the psychic 
barrier around the twin planets.


> If VRT is an immortal being, writing a story while in the guise/identity 
> of *John* Marsch, I take
> the translation to mean that his story of John Sandwalker and John 
> Eastwind is true auto-
> biography. This is his way of describing an event from a long, long time 
> ago, when he was a divided
> being later reunited, as shadows are wont to do. "John" for this being is 
> a way of saying "me".

But VRT isn't a Shadow Child anyway, and neither were Sandwalker and 
Eastwind.

- Gerry Quinn

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