>From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
>Nik Taylor scripsit:
> >
> > "P. M. ARKTAYG" wrote:
> > > "Ceterum censeo elfos extinguendos esse"
> > > - Melkor Maximus
> >
> > What does that mean? Something about Elves being extinguished?
>
>"And further it is my opinion that the Elves must be made extinct".
>"Melkor" is the original name of Morgoth, the primal Dark Lord of
>JRRT's mythology.
Didn't somebody on this list use the moniker of Morgoth?
>It's a parody of Cato the Censor's perpetual close to his speeches
>on any subject whatever: "That is my opinion, and further it is my
>opinion that Carthage must be destroyed: she is a menace to Rome."
>Eventually the Romans launched the Third (and last) Punic war out
>of sheer boredom.
A war about nothing. A Seinfeldian war in other words. Exactly what I have
in my work-in-progress, the sci-fi/fantasy thing I got all in my head but
none on paper or hard disk. World War III happened in the early- or
mid-21st century just because the United States got tired of peace.
(Actually it came as a result of successive scandals in government and
mounting hatred of the Washington ruling élite which led to Texas seceeding
from the Union around 2010 or so.)
DaW.
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