On Fri, 2 May 2008 12:35:53 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hansen <iddw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>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.
I thought the intent fo the second title obvious from the end of the
first.
After the Vatic... Holy City sets up the Spanish Armada to overwhelm
Charis, and fails, I thought it clear that the Archbishop of Charis, under
the King, is going to split off the Anglic... Charisican Church.
--
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
(Bene Gesserit)
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