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Mystery of Ascia

Son of Witz · 24 Jan 2011, 18:06 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:06:13 -0800
Subject: (urth) Mystery of Ascia
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On Jan 24, 2011, at 8:24 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I would disagree that the name implies dwelling in darkness. Being shadowless at the equator implies
> one is in such direct, overhead sunlight that no shadow is formed.

It's "Magical" reasoning, like blinding the Cock that Crows the sun.
So, No Shadow = No Light.
It doesn't compute rationaly, only in terms of magical symbolism.

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