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Re: Juvenile fooleries (was Re: Neanderthal and PIE (Long!))

From:Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 19:45
Den 15. okt. 2008 kl. 18.25 skreiv Jörg Rhiemeier:

> I also dabbled with a conworld featuring a "classic-style" > Atlantis drowning in the mid-Atlantic when I was in my teens. > My Atlantis was a high-tech, even starfaring, civilization > that eventually bombed itself out of existence (however, it > was too late to meddle with Neanderthals: I placed it about > 10,000 BC), but left behind a few colonies in neighbouring > planetary systems such as Tau Ceti.
Atlantis seems to be really required content in juvenile fantasies. My Atlantids also were interplanetary. And I traced their history back to more than 30,000 years BP. They definitely could have met the Neanderthals - and did, according to my still readily readable notes.
> Later, I scrapped that universe because I realized that it > was way too corny and Dänikenian.
You are lucky. I still have to live with them. But today I try to hide away my Atlantids in the conworld I am reconstructing, somewhat shamefacedly.
> My juvenile Atlantean conworld did not feature such beings, > but it is very possible that stories of giants, trolls, > fomors and similar beings conserve memories of Neanderthal > encounters.
Indeed. LEF

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