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Re: Concosmic Conlocation (was; Re; Back!)

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Thursday, July 22, 1999, 17:37
At 17:00 -0600 19.7.1999, Adam Parrish wrote:

> However, I think I have a solution, at least for my >purposes. Since my fictional world was made primarily for >story-telling, I think that I'll let the scientific details of the world >remain undefined unless they are pertinent to the story that is being >told. This is the way that Tolkien did it, at least, and if it's good >enough for him, it's good enough for me. :)
That's what I do WRT Sky-Earth too. Granted there are SF elements like that the Skylings/Finos came to the world they call _Ne'io'_ on a shipwrecked spaceship long ago, meting primitive humans, but the setting is essentially Fantasy, and I make no attempt to rationalize the presence of humans, or other similarities and dissimilarities to our world. That's just the way that universe is. As a matter of fact the Skylings of the Wanic age have reverted to a stone-age technology, lost all accurate understanding of their own past, and even believe they live on a flat disk floating on water in a crystal bowl, and that the sky they see is the bottom of the crystal bowl of the world from which they came! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ B.Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> <melroch@...> Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)