(urth) Ascians' Thematic Purppose
don doggett
kingwukong at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 30 18:59:34 PST 2006
You could also think of them as slaves to ASCII, that
is, their computers and technology (possibly this
influences their language as well?). A somewhat
prescient notion to judge from all the cel phone
lights that come on in the theater when my wife and I
are trying to enjoy a movie. :(
Just my 2cents and a half
Don
--- James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >Didn't Wolfe claim a classical origin for the word
> > Ascian?
>
> Yes, Ascian means "shadowless". Since the Ascians
> work for Erebus (which is
> the "darkness of Tartaros" according to Hesiod),
> they are ironically without
> a shadow, because they are in total darkness. To
> review this discussion, see
> here
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0208/
>
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0208/1509.txt.shtml
>
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0208/1510.txt.shtml
>
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0208/1512.txt.shtml
>
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0208/1515.txt.shtml
> etc.etc.etc.
>
>
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