On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:59:35 -0700 (PDT), "louann_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<louann_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Apr 28, 7:16 pm, John Schilling <schil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Of magic so limited its best use was to expend itself in sup****ting the
>> birth of science and technology.
>>
>> The Solomonic Gold, seems to have only two tricks up its sleve, and one
>> of them is mostly useless. The other, the nigh-immortality bit, that
>> could be genuinely useful, except that there's no mention of a way to
>> make *more* Solomonic Gold, so you've basically got a way to sustain a
>> small, immortal elite.
>
>I thought that Enoch and his buddy had been made permanently immortal
>by direct Divine Intervention, a season ticket, while the Solomonic
>Gold was used to bring normal people back from death on a one-time
>basis. The name "Enoch" has those connotations, someplace in Genesis
>-- in between the garden and the ark, I think.
He was Methuselah's father, IIRC, and one of those translated
directly to heaven without having to die first. "Well, I'm back,"
as it were.
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Bill Snyder [This space unintentionally left blank]
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