From: Klyfix@aol.com
Date: Sun 03 Aug 1997 - 05:02:36 EEST
In a message dated 97-08-02 14:58:53 EDT, you write:
>
> Things are getting crowded in duckland. We have three different views on
> ducks' origins till now:
> Michael Cule - Ducks are of the same species and have cultural and
mythical
> connections to keets.
> Me - Ducks and keets are of the same species but don't share any cultural
> or mythical ties. (If I had to defend my position I would say that I base
> it on materials published by Chaosium and AH.)
> David Dunham - Ducks are a recent creation of the EWF.
>
> Are we gregging?
>
> Sergio Mascarenhas
>
Well, I think your position and Mr. Cule's aren't totally
incompatable; I'd figure that the duck's connection with keets is largely
lost to them except in distorted legends.
The whole EWF thing is completely and utterly new to me and really
The _real_ truth about ducks of course is that they were added as
doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
sort of a joke; something to do with a friend of Greg's wanting a "Duckburg"
on the Dragon Pass map.
I'd go with Max Game Fun; ducks as an EWF creation isn't as
interesting (IMHO) as such approaches as "Ducks are the Jews of Glorantha".
for instance.
V.S. Greene : klyfix@aol.com : Boston, near Arkham...
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