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- From: e_dessu@pavo.concordia.ca (dez)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
- Subject: Re: Size of the orb??
- Message-ID: <21NOV199216543383@pavo.concordia.ca>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 21:54:00 GMT
- References: <96801@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov9.212342.21733@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Nov12.175624.14436@nmsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov12.175624.14436@nmsu.edu>, bmargoli@dante.nmsu.edu (MARGOLIS) writes...
- >I seem to remember a passage that quoted the orb as being "the
- >size of a child's heart." I haven't read the Belgariad in a while
- >though, so I'm not completely sure about this. Does anyone else
- >remember the passage?
- >
- >Bernie
- >bmargoli@nmsu.edu
-
- It wasn't hard to check up on. Page 1 of "Pawn of Prophecy" says:
-
- "Now it happened that Aldur took up a stone in the shape of an globe, no
- larger than the heart of a child, and he turned the stone in his hand until
- it became a living soul."
-
- I know it's been discussed to death, but I'm still not satisfied with Eddings'
- Orb-Sardion relationship. If both stones were one in the Beginning, why did
- Aldur have to pick it up and breath life into it? Is this one of those
- glaring inconsistencies that these newsgroups are made to nitpick about, or
- am I being just a little too snide?
-
- dez, the Grand Old Dink of the North
-
-