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- From: p9b3@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Dan Fleet)
- Subject: Re: Size of the orb??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.153033.10459@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Organization: University of New Brunswick
- References: <1992Nov9.212342.21733@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Nov12.175624.14436@nmsu.edu> <21NOV199216543383@pavo.concordia.ca>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:30:33 GMT
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- In article <21NOV199216543383@pavo.concordia.ca> e_dessu@pavo.concordia.ca (dez) writes:
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- >It wasn't hard to check up on. Page 1 of "Pawn of Prophecy" says:
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- >"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?
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- Of course, it is known that most writers are not consistent in a series,
- (YOU try wrtiting a ten book series of Edding's detail and keep track of
- everyting... ;-)
-
- But here is a stab at rationalization of the above passage.
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- Remember that humans tend to look at Gods in awe (for good reason!).
- Since the gods created the world (well, UL did, the other gods populated it),
- people tend to think they they are the creators of everthing.
-
- No, say that the orb came hurtling down from space (some thousands of years
- after the Sardion did, BTW), and landed in a stream, where Aldur found it.
- No, being a god, Aldur would be attuned to sources of power, like the orb.
- So, naturally curious about this thing, which neither he nor any of his
- brothers created, he picked it up and looked it over ("tuning it in his
- palm"). Naturally, the orb would try to comminucate, and probably had a
- long conversation with Aldur. It also probably explored Aldur's mind, liked
- what it saw, and began to glow (as the Orb is wont to do on occasion).
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- To an outside observer, this looks as though Aldur picked up the stone,
- played with it a bit, and, seemingly on a whim, the stone became sentient.
- (The type of things that humans picture gods doing. You have to admit that
- there are very few accounts of gods meticulously (sp?) desiging the urinary
- tract of a new species they are about to create. They just mystically call
- them into being.
-
- So, what, to the human recorders of history, occured, was Aldur created the
- orb. What is more likely, however, is that Aldur merely DISCOVERED the orb,
- and perhaps his divine presence caused the sleeping stone to awaken once
- again.
-
- just my $0.0214 worth ($0.02 + 7% GST)
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- ---
- Dan Fleet is p9b3@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
- Stay where you're at and I'll come where you're to.
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- >dez, the Grand Old Dink of the North
- >
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