Re: CHAT: Relays, Link 1

On Sunday, August 19, 2001, at 11:53 PM, Shreyas Sampat wrote:

> The first Texts:
>
> Nur Saraxasûh
>
[snip]
> Nur Spoke
>
> Long ago, I was alone with the Chaos.
> The noise of the Chaos pained my heart, and so I took refuge in the
> Silence.
> The Silence pained me too, and so I created the world.
> Among the people of this world, I finally found my rightful place;
> Where they worshipped me,
> And named me their god.
>
So *that's* what the original was!  <squirm>  Okay, I *so* reinterpreted
what I got it's not even funny, even if it does move toward this
(unintentionally)....<G>

Is the following the 2nd text?  It seemed to be a new one but there wasn't
a--boundary marked, so I missed it at first.

> There were many children in the room;
> Their noisy fun [can be heard] from the room;
> [Causing] the woman to go into the room.
> [She] said:
>
[snip]
Wow, what a neat transition!  :-)  <thinking of rowdy middle school kids>

All I can say now is, I wish I knew how to work toward the kind of
richness and complexity I've seen in these first two texts...maybe in a
decade or so.  <G>

YHL

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