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On 23/09/10 23:29, Jeff Wilson wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4C9BD4BB.2010304@io.com" type="cite">On 9/23/2010
4:34 PM, Mr Thalassocrat wrote:
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Hang on - I'm pretty sure that it says somewhere that Typhon was the
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*first* to carve a mountain, and that the *Autarchs* continued the
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practice. No?
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Typhon is the first to carve his face into the western Andes, at least.
The Autarchs that follow do likewise, but there semms also to be a
succession of Autarchs before Typhon, or at least a succession of
people whose minds are inherited by the post-Typhon succession. URTH,
XLI: "and I began, as I walked on, to search those veiled lives that
lie behind the last, memories that I have scarcely mentioned in this
narrative, that dim as they grow stranger and stretch backward,
perhaps, to Ymar, and behind Ymar to the Age of Myth."<br>
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Surely the operative word here is <b>'perhaps'</b>? <br>
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