(urth) Fwd: Re: Urth is a colonised planet

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

The spatula is the natural enemy of the hypothalamus.

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:32 PM, Charles Gillingham <
charlesgillingham at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis_(Divine_Comedy)
>
> I always get that mixed up with the city in Paradise Lost.
>
> On Sep 29, 2017 7:09 PM, "Eric Bourland" <eb at hwaet.com> wrote:
>
>> Ruled by Dispater, if the Old Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual can be
>> credited.
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>> From: Charles Gillingham <charlesgillingham at gmail.com>
>> Sent: ‎9/‎29/‎2017 8:32 PM
>> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) Fwd: Re: Urth is a colonised planet
>>
>> Dis is named after a city in hell. I know this from playing Doom in the
>> 90's.
>>
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2017 12:27 PM, "Marc Aramini" <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Second volume submitted but hasn't gone through editing ... anyone's
>>> guess. When I submit the final part ( gonna be 3 - got too long) then it
>>> might be reapportioned for equally sized hardbacks, which I think is
>>> probably wise, or no one will buy volume 3. There is almost no editing to
>>> do compared to last time, so I hope Matthew can get through it soon.
>>>
>>> I think volume two is far superior to the first.
>>>
>>> On Friday, September 29, 2017, Eric Bourland <eb at hwaet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Huh. You know, I never thought of that.  =) Thank you, Marc.
>>>>
>>>> Say, when is the second volume of your Light and Shadow book coming out
>>>> from Castalia?
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Eric Bourlandeb at hwaet.comhttps://www.hwaet.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 9/29/2017 1:26 PM, Ab de Vos wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Putting my hands on my mouth again.
>>>>
>>>> Op 29-9-2017 om 19:24 schreef Marc Aramini:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, well known the planets were named for Norns, urth, skald,
>>>> verthandi.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, September 29, 2017, Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> They may be colonists in the sense of random settlers in another
>>>>> country, like ex-pats. But not in the sense of a imperialistic colonization
>>>>> scheme such as in Cerberus. There is I believe no indication that the
>>>>> autarch is subjected to the kakogens which would have pointed to a foreign
>>>>> power ruling. A foreign power ruling indigenous elites is a sure sign of
>>>>> colonization, like the Dutch East Indies.
>>>>>
>>>>> By the way. Yesterday I read in a piece about Lovecraft that Urth
>>>>> means  'fate' and also 'turn' or 'bend' in Old Norse. The word 'weird' is
>>>>> derived from it. I was always thinking 'urth' was a simple bastardization
>>>>> of earth. Anybody knew this? It was a surprise to me. Fate and the turning
>>>>> of deep time.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -------- Doorgestuurd bericht --------
>>>>> Onderwerp: Re: (urth) Urth is a colonised planet
>>>>> Datum: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:15:32 -0500
>>>>> Van: Jeffery Wilson clueland.com <jwilson at clueland.com>
>>>>> Aan: Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9/27/2017 4:12 PM, Ab de Vos wrote:
>>>>> > Probably Urth is a galactic backwater visited by aliens, some of them
>>>>> > like the sea monster living on Urth. No colonization scheme I think.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rather it strikes me that Abaia's undines are indeed colonists, or among
>>>>> them. It's not clear if they are beings who have swum here across space,
>>>>> or Urthly humans who were given such power with their collossal size.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jeffery Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
>>>>> RIP - A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab< http://clueland.com/demo/interact/ > <http://clueland.com/demo/interact/>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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