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

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Monday, January 13, 2003, 16:36
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. -- Ceci n'est pas une .sig.