Re: Missing the sky

En réponse à Muke Tever <alrivera@...>:

>
> A landscape is just a section of the earth--one can measure its
> boundaries, draw
> its features, and whatnot... so I gather.
>
Well, To me the landscape is the part of earth that I can see at the moment,
and its limit is the horizon. So yes you can probably draw its features, but so
can you of the sky, and just like the sky it's changeable (if only when I
move :)) ). You cannot really compare the landscape in a plane and the
landscape on top of a mountain, and yet you call them both "landscape".

Of course, I may be wrong in the English use of that word and superpose it too
much to the French "paysage".

>
> True, and actually in that conworld there actually are such spirit-type
> things
> (which, ironically, are visible only to the Rami--who are creatures with
> a wider
> range of vision than humans)...
>
Ultraviolet or infrared creatures? :)))

> Hmm... if a derivative of 'sky' was made from that (which it may be)
> then that
> would give quite a negative concultural opinion of the sky, considering
> these
> spirits are quite malicious creatures.[1]
>
I don't think it would be a first. I bet there have been cultures here who
considered the sky as negative.

Christophe.

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