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- From: curtis@berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Subject: Re: Language Lists (was Re: Work in Progress: Proposal
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.175643.14769@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:56:43 GMT
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- In article <71583@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
- >
- >Which is, now that I think of it, probably a good reason why a goat isn't
- >really a goat -- if some of the animals are unique entities, than
- >consistency dictates that they all ought to be. Stuff that's clearly
- >universal (clothing, utensils, etc) are no problem, but props that are
- >unique to the environment probably ought to have that uniqueness emphasized.
-
- Paul Park, in the first forty pages of _Soldiers Of Paradise_,
- creates one of the strangest worlds in genre fiction.
-
- _Soldiers_ has _no_ invented words; nor does it rely, a la Wolfe, on
- etymologies less taken and linguistic fossils.
-
- A horse, placidly chewing on the severed child's hand in its beak,
- is a far more powerful image than a vrishnu, placidly chewing on the
- severed murgli's hand in its beak - even if the horse is not a
- horse, nor the child a child.
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