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[brunians at brunians.org]

I have no intention of doing so.

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> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>> And a society that is physically deteriorating due to climate change,
>> that
>> is also in the middle of a huge war, tends not support sports such as
>> recreational mountain climbing.
>>
>> Why do you always presume, Stockhoff?
>>
>> Don't you ever know?
>>
>> Do you believe that folks don't notice you saying nasty things whenever
>> I
>> ask a question you don't wish to answer?
>>
>> How stupid are you, exactly?
>>
>> I keep going back and forth between you and the JW's in my perennial
>> urth
>> list dumbest monkey test.
>>
>> .
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>>
>>> Presumably it was far from where anyone would normally go.
>>>
>>> António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>>
>>>> And isn't Typhon supposed to be *2* thousand years before Severian?
>>>>
>>>> (Never mind that Typhon was up there in his mountain all the time. Did
>>>> no one think of going there?)
>>>>
>>>> David Stockhoff wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 200 autarchs could rule an average of 5 years each over 1000 years.
>>>>> If
>>>>> 20 of these autarchs ruled an average of 20 years, the remaining 180
>>>>> would each have to rule for about 3+1/3 years to maintain the
>>>>> average.
>>>>> It's possible. In such a system, the individuality of each autarch,
>>>>> all
>>>>> but the greatest, would be inconsequential and utterly lost. Which is
>>>>> exactly what has happened in imperial dynasties. England's monarch,
>>>>> by
>>>>> contrast, was much more robust even at its weakest.
>>>>>
>>>>> If we know only 3 names from the past 1000 years, perhaps that is
>>>>> why.
>>>>> If only these 3 ruled for 50 each and the remainder for still only
>>>>> about
>>>>> 4 years on average, that makes 200 in total. It's then slightly more
>>>>> plausible.
>>>>>
>>>>> But is this important?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8/1/2010 1:36 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Some autarchs may have ruled for only a week.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's not unusual for popes or kings either. John-Paul I reigned a
>>>>>> month, Jane Grey for 9 days, and IIRC the Hawaiian Kamehameha
>>>>>> dynasty
>>>>>> ended with the last couple of heirs reigning for less than a day
>>>>>> apiece. These rates can't be sustained with anything like stability,
>>>>>> and are more than compensated for by the Victorias and Henrys, who
>>>>>> come to the throne young and live on into vigorous old age.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Appian-Severian-Valeria cover a minimum of eight decades, I'd say,
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> Ymar could easily have been one of the child-Autarchs as well as
>>>>>> reigning long enough to be credited with his various deeds and
>>>>>> commands, even if he didn't actually do or complete all of them.
>>>>>> This
>>>>>> leaves about nine hundred years for all but one of the hundreds the
>>>>>> Old Autarch spoke of, surely they can do better than that? In the
>>>>>> 900
>>>>>> years following the Norman Conquest there were only 45 English
>>>>>> monarchs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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