The Wizard

Jeff Wilson · 11 Mar 2012, 23:24 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:24:42 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Wizard
In-Reply-To: <CAMwAopQ+DxXon-_rRpM=414ibbdSkiXfrT5oaEGOksATy71Bjw at mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/11/2012 1:56 PM, Nick Lee wrote:
> I see no evidence of Islam, per se. As was already pointed out, "Allah"
> predates Islam. Something like Islam may have arisen as well, but I
> don't see it as strictly necessary. There is no mention of most of human
> history in the Sun books, and what we do get is sometimes different.
> There is no mention any nations we would recognize, and the stories were
> receive of the past are always patchworks.

Land of Virgins = Virginia

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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