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Urth is a colonised planet
Eric Bourland · 29 Sep 2017, 17:49
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From: eb at hwaet.com (Eric Bourland) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:49:31 -0000 Subject: (urth) Fwd: Re: Urth is a colonised planet In-Reply-To: <e061bc36-5d6b-00c5-9895-c2df1d66bed6 at casema.nl> References: <cdec8bd5-c567-e6be-4f94-6c158e74c6f1 at clueland.com> <4f0bb02f-4bb8-8c66-0add-54fb5897a6d0 at casema.nl> <CAF1072waaMWh7Dhg=u4fUHP=mYmgFobOhGyXU15Vqb132OzqHg at mail.gmail.com> <e061bc36-5d6b-00c5-9895-c2df1d66bed6 at casema.nl> Message-ID: <d6fff0cb-171a-5768-6bf6-416deed3b915 at hwaet.com> Huh. You know, I never thought of that.? =) Thank you, Marc. Say, when is the second volume of your Light and Shadow book coming out from Castalia? Eric -- Eric Bourland eb at hwaet.com https://www.hwaet.com On 9/29/2017 1:26 PM, Ab de Vos wrote: > > Putting my hands on my mouth again. > > > Op 29-9-2017 om 19:24 schreef Marc Aramini: >> Yes, well known the planets were named for Norns, urth, skald, verthandi. >> >> On Friday, September 29, 2017, Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl >> <mailto:foxyab at casema.nl>> wrote: >> >> They may be colonists in the sense of random settlers in another >> country, like ex-pats. But not in the sense of a imperialistic >> colonization scheme such as in Cerberus. There is I believe no >> indication that the autarch is subjected to the kakogens which >> would have pointed to a foreign power ruling. A foreign power >> ruling indigenous elites is a sure sign of colonization, like the >> Dutch East Indies. >> >> By the way. Yesterday I read in a piece about Lovecraft that Urth >> means? 'fate' and also 'turn' or 'bend' in Old Norse. The word >> 'weird' is derived from it. I was always thinking 'urth' was a >> simple bastardization of earth. Anybody knew this? It was a >> surprise to me. Fate and the turning of deep time. >> >> >> >> -------- Doorgestuurd bericht -------- >> Onderwerp: Re: (urth) Urth is a colonised planet >> Datum: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:15:32 -0500 >> Van: Jeffery Wilson clueland.com <http://clueland.com> >> <jwilson at clueland.com> >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jwilson at clueland.com');> >> Aan: Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl> >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','foxyab at casema.nl');> >> >> >> >> On 9/27/2017 4:12 PM, Ab de Vos wrote: >> > Probably Urth is a galactic backwater visited by aliens, some of them >> > like the sea monster living on Urth. No colonization scheme I think. >> >> Rather it strikes me that Abaia's undines are indeed colonists, or among >> them. It's not clear if they are beings who have swum here across space, >> or Urthly humans who were given such power with their collossal size. >> >> -- >> Jeffery Wilson - <jwilson at clueland.com >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jwilson at clueland.com');> > >> RIP - A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab >> < http://clueland.com/demo/interact/ > >> <http://clueland.com/demo/interact/> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Urth Mailing List >> To post, writeurth at urth.net >> Subscription/information:http://www.urth.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Urth Mailing List > To post, write urth at urth.net > Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net -- Eric Bourland eb at hwaet.com https://www.hwaet.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20170929/bdb2a461/attachment-0001.html>
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