Re: Chicken or the egg?
From: Paul J Kriha (paul.nospam.kriha_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 08/16/04
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:37:39 +1200
Jacques Guy <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message news:41207620.7904@alphalink.com.au...
> Paul J Kriha wrote:
>
> > What do you mean "immobile"??
>
>
> "Immobile" as in "immobility" there:
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> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/3543/galhrsy.htm
>
> Now where would you be without yours faithfully?
> Would you dig out such gems of wisdom all by
> yourself? Say "thank you, Frogguy"
Mind bog..bog..boggles....:-)
Oh, and yes, thank you, Frogguy.
Obviously, The Consultors were not familiar with works of one
Terry Pratchett:
"In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane
that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part...
See...
Great A'Tuin the turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar
gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell
pocked with meteor craters. Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted
with reum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination.
In a brain bigger than a city, with geological slowness, He thinks only
of the Weight.
Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia, Tubul, Great
T'Phon and Jerakeen, the four giant elephants upon whose broad and
star-tanned shoulders the disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long
waterfalls at its vast circumference and domed by the baby-blue vault of
Heaven. Astropsychology has been, as yet, unable to establish what
they think about. etc. etc."
So, this has been revealed in the very Prologue of The Original Discworld
Book. Clearly, the world has never been immobile. And it'll get worse,
much worse, after A'Tuin will have reached the Destination.
Paul JK
> For more pearls of wisdom, you can go there:
>
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/thomiste/ynourel.htm
>
> But be warned: it's big (255k), and it's all
> in Froggish (ça cause, ça cause, ça sait même
> pas torcher un site Web)
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