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<p>Drew, Welcome back. You were missed.<br>
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1. Re: MISC: The Girl Who Saved the World Part 71 (Drew Perron)
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Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 18:50:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Perron <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pwerdna@gmail.com"><pwerdna@gmail.com></a>
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So, I am one million years behind on Girl Who Saved The World. I intend to catch
up, but you know what? I need to stop putting it off because I haven't caught up
yet. I should be more active in the *present* of this group, not just the past.
So let's jump into the latest Bit and see how things are going from someone
who's been out for... um... A While.
On 5/18/2018 9:18 PM, George Phillies wrote:
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<pre wrap="">You are a persona, Dorothy told herself.You beat the giant lizard, even if you
can’t remember your boyfriend who helped.You did stop the League terrorist by
yourself, when you were not at all sure your force field was bulletproof. You
are not afraid because you are listening to a girl barely two-thirds your age,
even if she does speak an extinct language, so far as you can tell flawlessly,
telling you that she is about to die.
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Well! This is nice and evocative, and sets the mood well, even not knowing the
context up to this point. :></pre>
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The context is perhaps of some significance. The immediately prior
conversation was<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">“How
could Joe not tell us he had a girlfriend?” Dorothy asked.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“At least he invited you to
breakfast, your
parents I assume permitting? Especially a girlfriend who knows
Atlanticean…You
can read the runes you are wearing, can’t you?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">I
am who they say I am,” </i>Spindrift
answered in Atlanticean. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Time’s
Dagger.</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">And I am Joe’s friend who
is a girl,
until the end of days.</i>”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Dorothy
wished Joe were here, now, to translate for sure what his
girlfriend had just
said. She was reasonably sure she understood what Spindrift
meant, but Joe’s
Atlanticean was flawless. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She
would do
her best for Teranike, who was from a world where there had
never been a Gaea
Atlanticea. “Teranike, Spindrift said the sigils on her vest say
who she is,
and that she will be Joe’s girlfriend forever.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">“Spindrift,”
Teranike said, “that’s wonderful, but I hope I am not sounding
too, ummh,
motherly, if I say that forever is a long time, especially at
your age.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Dorothy
suddenly remembered a turn of phrase. <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In
Atlanticean ‘…end of days…’ meant ‘…the end of your days..’, and
was only used
if your end was on the horizon and swift approaching. Teranike’s
advice was
good, if it didn’t hurt Spindrift’s feelings.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Surely for both of them it had to be first girlfriend and
first
boyfriend? “I think my translation wasn’t that good,” Dorothy
said quickly, “I
didn’t mean to say you might have, ummh, unrealistic ideas.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">She
approaches on swift and silent wings.</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">No offense will be
intended or taken,” </i>Spindrift
said.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“Sage advice, well
meant.” <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>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.’</span></p>
“So when is Joe showing up?” Dorothy
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<pre wrap="">asked. “Have you ever dated him before?” And how will you two each get to
school? she wondered, though it was really clear that Joe could teleport.
“No,” Spindrift answered. “The first time together is yet to come.”
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Interesting way of phrasing it.
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<pre wrap="">“I knew he would not be here before I depart,” Spindrift answered, her breakfast
rapidly disappearing. “Do not blame him, either.He is a wonderful person, kind
and thoughtful and self-sacrificing and absolutely gifttrue.And cute.”
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D'awwwww.</pre>
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Of course, Dorothy and Teranike are both subject to a certain
misapprehension.
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<pre wrap="">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.
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Oh, I love this idea. <3 <3 <3 That is excellent worldbuilding.</pre>
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I claim no originality. Look up "kennings"
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ooooooooh. Damn, that's a lot of good, Star Wars-style "drop interesting
signifiers and let them ripple into the reader's conception of the world".
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<pre wrap="">“She slipped into my language./Chelesh N’drageu/is Polarian.With no accent,”
Teranike said. “No accent at all. I have never met a foreigner, and I am a High
Officer of the Lake of Silver Fire, who did not have an accent. The Dark Lights?
In both our universes, though in ours the Northern Barbarians want it to be a
military secret, there are cosmic dust clouds that have evolved intelligence. In
your universe, they stay well away from Earth. In ours, one visited twice, once
60 years ago, almost causing an ice age by accident, and again recently, staying
on the far side of the sun but neglecting to mention that it had sent androids
to Earth, to speak with a few people still alive that it had met on its prior
visit. 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.”
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Yeah, it might o3o; Fascinating. Makes me wonder further on the structure of
this universe.</pre>
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Yes, that is a tribute to Hoyle, the astrophysicist and novelist.<br>
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