On May 1, 9:53 pm, wdst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(William December Starr) wrote:
> In article <UfSdnUhl2f_P-oXVnZ2dnUVZ_q2hn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Paul Howard" <ppaulshow...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
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> > The sequel to OAR (BY SCHISM RENT ASUNDER) is currently being
> > snippeted on Baen's Bar and athttp://www.ericflint.net/
>
> Good lord. That's not a title, that's an Erudite Vocab. Bros.
> delivery truck that's overturned on the Expressway, holding up
> traffic for six miles in both directions.
Actually, it's (almost) a line from the third verse of "The Church's
One Foundation", a hymn written by Samuel J. Stone in 1866, partially
in response to a book written by a liberal Anglican bishop which
questioned the historical accuracy of the Pentateuch. The verse
describes the state of the church:
Though with a scornful wonder
Men see her sore oppressed,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distressed,
Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.
So the title seems to indicate that "church" of Weber's story is going
to be fractured by "schism", singular it seems (Merlin, perhaps?)
rather than plural.
Or perhaps it is not the "church" of the story, but the growing
rebellion led by Merlin/Nimue. And remember <rot13> Fur jnf
pbasyvpgrq nobhg creuncf orvat gur bayl Puevfgvna ba gur cynarg, ohg
univat qbhogf jurgure fur urefrys, nf na naqebvq, npghnyyl unq n fbhy?<
\rot13>
Note that the presumed title of the third volume is indeed the next
line of the same verse. Perhaps the working title for the first was
"Men See Her Sore Oppressed," but it was deemed too ambiguous...
Regards,
-=Dave
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