I seem to recall a supernova in 1987 when I was 13...

The 1 day = 1 year hypothesis is supported by a fair beit of evidence in the txt. In LFB, Covenant was in the land for about 2 months (count the red moons!) and the doctor at the end said he'd been unconscious for about 4 hours. (4 hrs = 1/6 full day, 2 months = 1/6 year) At the start of TIW, if you...

I read that his brother said he was working on some sort of fantasy spoof manuscript, but I don't know any details or how far along the manuscript was...

He always said his aim in life is to get people to read books, not to win literature awards. I read the Belgariad and Mallorean first in 1988, right after finishing TCOTC 8) for the first time, and I loved its levity in contrast. Eddings (like SRD but in a very different way) provided me with many, ...

Yeah, they're scrabbling around trying to milk political brownie points from the everso decent gesture of paying some of these expenses back. But I think everyone knows it's only because the proverbial feline is out of the bag. Without the media stink they'd all still be more than happy to continue ...

Incidentally, would anyone care to enlighten me as to what the heck 'Insequents' are here on KW?

(I mean in the context of KW, don't worry, I've read Fatal Revenant)

One of them claimed over £2000 reimbursement for the professional cleaning out of his MOAT!

He must feel so sorry for us unwashed masses who have to function without the sociopolitical benefits of a clean moat.

Marie Antoinette, eat your heart out!

Warm greetings to anyone who remembers me!

Thought I'd just drop a line to say hi, been away from the Watch a year or so, because I've emigrated to sunnier, funnier climes (Crete)!

Nice to see the Watch looking so reassuringly similar, with most of the old names & some interesting new ones!

Stonemaybe wrote:

Hey! The Bristol boy is back! Longtimenosee, ur-monkey!

Why, thankee Stonemaybe! Yes, thought I'd take another shufty at the Watch, see how it was getting on...been an eventful year, I've moved to Crete, teaching English. I hear the weather's still lovely back home though!

I'd turn myself into billions of independently-thinking, sophisticated apes and ask myself several pretty darned searching questions about whether or not I existed!

This is terrible news, though not really a total shock... :( Her rival, Sharif, is reported to be boycotting January's elections now. A huge setback for democracy in Pakistan. I think this is potentially far more worrying than anything going on in Iran... Benazir Bhutto was a brave woman willing to ...

I'm not sure I necessarily see the old gospel as having been changed. We're just becoming more aware of what really happened, and how. The past being manifest in the present and all that, and the Land's original history of having been told in the 1st chrons by people who lacked some key facts and wh...

But suppose he is? What if he meant ''what have you done, all they have to do now is kill me to break the Arch?"

It would certainly make the suspense of keeping him alive much more keen in the remaining two books...

That's true!

:biggrin: Holy smokin' krill! That was one HELLUVA ride! :o [splutters] Berek Halfhand! The Berek Halfhand! All Seven Words!!! Spades full of Hurtloam. The history of RivenRock. Earthblood, Caerroil Wildwood, Damelon Giantfriend, GIANTS!!! :biggrin: , Wraiths... [ur-monkey expires of a curious blend...

Covenant is presumably STILL the Arch of Time. Even though he has now been reborn in flesh.

Does that mean that if he is killed, the Arch breaks? Has the Arch now been made as fragile as Covenant's mortal flesh?

Elena had Commanded Kevin to engage with and [attempt to] defeat Lord Foul, rather than asking the EarthBlood to do this directly. I've always thought that sending Kevin as the middle-man to do her dirty work diffused the Power of Command. It was spent resurrecting Kevin in order to make battle with...

Maybe the Unfettered One (because he was Unfettered and therefore apart from Kevin's Lore) had discerned other Words of Power, more to do with commanding all those forest animals that came to his aid...

Perhaps Elena failed Kevin by not giving him a more effective Command against the Despiser, to redeem himself...

Yeah, I warned him what 7 pints of Thatcher's Rough Cider does to you...