[UA] Another take on renunciation...

[Chad Underkoffler]

> From: "Timothy Ferguson" <ferguson at beyond.net.au>
> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:38:22 +1000
>
> How's this for an idea -
>
> We see Archetypes in fiction and go "Oh...so like the Old
> Man of the Sea but fictional!"  Is it possible that losing 
> your place reduces you to fiction?

Ooooh. Shiny.

> I know you can do this with a cliomantic charge, and 
> occasionally perhaps someone tidies up by fictionalising
> all those who have been Renounced, but what if there once 
> was an Arthur and he's been reduced to fiction?

So, you go thru the HoR and don't pop back out reversed, but
fictional? I like it.

> As a second idea, what if these strong fictions are 
> watermarks on the current Earth?  Last time there -was- 
> an Arthur.  Last time, there -was- a Zorro.  Last time, 
> there -was- a Pecos Bill. This time, we only have 
> their "fingerprints" left in the sticky stuff from
> which the world is made.

I like that, too.

But are you saying that humanity cannot acheive those watermarks
again, or that their existence made such an impact on the
component parts of the Godhead (the IC), that echoes show up in
the way human psychology develops?



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God isn't silent, he just speaks very softly. In Etruscan.

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