In another thread, far away:
:: It does, however, prove that you were lying
: No it doesn't. It means I forgot.
This remainds me: how many are are reading the Furies of Calderon
series? I'm reminded because one of the groups in that book, the Marat,
have no word for "lying" (or rather... socially don't call people liars).
They substitute "mistaken-and-knows-it", explicitly enumerating the
elements
that must be present for "a lie". The Marat think other folks are crazy,
among other things, for overloading a word that means something else
with the concept mistaken-and-knows-it. Ie, "He's lying!" / "What do
you mean, he's right there and he's standing up."
( As an aside, when in the first couple of pages they started talking
about "furycrafting" for sneaking up on an encampment of bad guys,
I sort of perceived it as "furrycrafting", and wondered if it was
dressing up as fuzzy woodland creatures to blend in. This hypothesis
quickly became untenable... but I digress. )
I will just comment that the magic system he's invented for the setting
seems quite interesting, and the connection to the Roman empire (in the
in-story history I mean) is also an attractive (if currently somewhat
nebulous) feature.
Oh, also too this is a case of "everybody's got magic" rather than just a
few (though only a few have the highest power levels), as well as a case
of "magic displaces technology", ie, gets used for mundane day-to-day
things, like pulling stumps or heating water for baths and so on and
so forth.
Bs pbhefr, vg gheaf bhg gung gur cebgntbavfg bs yrff-guna-fgryyne
novyvgvrf
naq ybj fbpvny pynff gheaf bhg gb or gur hfhny qvfcynprq aboyr bssfcevat,
ohg bu jryy, pna'g unir rirelguvat.
Wayne Throop throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sheol.org/throopw
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