MISC: The Girl Who Saved the World Part 71

[Drew Perron]

On 5/22/2018 4:53 PM, George Phillies wrote:
> Drew,  Welcome back.  You were missed.

Aw! Thank you! <3

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>> Well! This is nice and evocative, and sets the mood well, even not knowing the
>> context up to this point. :>
> The context is perhaps of some significance.  The immediately prior conversation was

Oooh, let's see...

> “/I am who they say I am,” /Spindrift answered in Atlanticean. “/Time’s Dagger./ 
> /And I am Joe’s friend who is a girl, until the end of days./”

Heeheehee. That's adorable.

> Dorothy wished she did not 
> remember what in Atlanticea approached on swift, silent wings. The Crone 
> Incarnate came with terrifying images. ‘The sun was a copper penny. Ashes fell 
> from the heavens. Waves rose higher and higher. The winds blasted from the 
> mountain tops, tearing the trees from their roots. The screaming of the accursed 
> souls trapped above the sky drowned out all other sound.’

Wow. :o Holy shit.

> Of course, Dorothy and Teranike are both subject to a certain misapprehension.
>>> ormal written Atlanticeanwas based in infolding puns, so that
>>> wheatfield started as waves of gold, except waves were shore’s call and gold was
>>> banker’s blood, so wheatfield became shores calling for banker’s blood, and
>>> matters became more complicated from there, even before references to
>>> Atlanticean mythology were inserted.
>> Oh, I love this idea. <3 <3 <3 That is excellent worldbuilding.
> I claim no originality. Look up "kennings"

Yes, but still very well-used. :>

>>> They, the /Chelesh N’drageu,/ live in interstellar space, passing by
>>> stars to feed on the sunlight.They have questions --how the universe that has
>>> lasted forever came to be -- whose answers cannot be spoken, because the act of
>>> speaking the answers causes the universe to delete the speaker. And its answer.
>>> That was why I was here, to see if anything is known of the deletion.An effect
>>> that causes the mass of a large planet to vanish, in a single instant, with
>>> absolutely no trace left behind, might possibly have a few weapons applications.”
>> Yeah, it might o3o; Fascinating. Makes me wonder further on the structure of
>> this universe.
> Yes, that is a tribute to Hoyle, the astrophysicist and novelist.

Fascinating.

Drew "never read 'em" Perron