Re: New Survey: Celtic Conlangs (and other lunatic pursuits)

John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:

> Keith Gaughan scripsit:
>
> > The Egon cycle is, as I discovered from Christian Thalmann, similar to
> > Michael Moorecock's Eternal Hero cycle. To be honest, I got the basic idea
> > of a soul bouncing around time and space from seeing Quantum Leap once and
> > from reading Nietzsche more than anything else (eternal recurrence) and
> > never read any of the Eternal Hero books until after Christian mentioned
> > them. Why does this keep happening to me? :-)
>
> Because there actually is a total order of words, which it is the business
> of philology (a cover term for linguistics and literary criticism) to
> study, and which we no more invent, individually, than we invent the
> external world, or total order of nature, which it is the business of
> natural philosophy (a cover term for biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy,
> geology, etc.) to study.
Well, I would have just mentioned Joseph Campbell and the Monomyth myself,
or made a joke about eternal recurrencebut hey!

> > No. I've heard of the SCA, but what's the Mythopoeic Society?
>
> A group interested in the works of Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and some others.
Ah! Cool.

Still, the question stands - does Ternaru actually have a real trigger
system or am I deluding myself.

K.

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