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I had just read this and was doing my "copy/paste" action when I saw your post.
Shocked me too.
I can only think that he, too, was being tongue-in-cheek, as he has plainly stated in the past that such questions are no longer relevant as it is a 'given' that the land is 'real'.
I think SRD is just stoking the fires...
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SRD wrote:
I'll restrict myself to a short answer. Once you accept the notion that all of these characters find their genesis in Covenant's mind , the explanation is clear. Naturally they know all the words he knows.
(01/12/2011)
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I read that...and got a bit worried.Creator wrote:An Interesting GI - what might it suggest?!
Ian Boulton wrote:Hi Steve,
.. How come the people of the land have a command of vocabulary that's almost as good as yours? Cord Bhapa just used the word "guerdon" and I bet he doesn't have a copy of The Oxford English Dictionary. Or even one of your American Webster ones!...
Now here, by the end of the Second Chronicles, I thought the Land was patently 'real' and external from Covenant ... What might this suggest for the Last Dark?!SRD wrote:
I'll restrict myself to a short answer. Once you accept the notion that all of these characters find their genesis in Covenant's mind , the explanation is clear. Naturally they know all the words he knows.
(01/12/2011)
Off the top of my head, 3 possibilities, the first I hate:
It is a "just a dream" parallel/scenario in the end.
The second I'm not in love with, but could be OK depending how it works:
Genesis is an interesting word choice in this context, so perhaps it wasn't real, but in cooperation/relation/symbiosis...maybe even identity...with the Creator, it is now.
The third I most like:
The statement isn't as simple as it seems/is misdirection/only partial, and there are some surprises coming. [thematic ones, not just incidents that happen].
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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If it's misdirection on SRD's part, it wouldn't be the first time.
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