From: Alex Ferguson (abf@yeats.ucc.ie)
Date: Mon 29 Mar 1999 - 04:49:29 EEST
Steve Lieb:
> I only felt that forests could be a subset of ecosystems, since Elves of
> various types don't necessarily inhabit only "forests"
> Other examples: blue elves in kelp beds, red elves in tropical swamps,
> black elves in mushroom patches.
Ah! Now I perceive the nature of your misapprehension. Those
types of 'elves' are not 'aldryami', if I recall my definitions
correctly (since they don't worship Aldrya).
[mostali and aldryami]
> 1) both have a prime purpose - trolls don't, humans don't, dragonewts don't
> (that we can figure out)
What about "eat", "meaningless due to species bias and curtural variance"
and "become dragons", respectively? I think the senses in which one
might claim mostali and aldryami to have 'prime purposes' are not
really comparable. Each dwarf has an individual 'prime purpose', sure,
but elves do not; comparing theoretical species 'purposes' is a little
bit nebulous.
> 2) both operate communally in pursuit of this purpose - individualism is
> strongly discouraged or absent
Word 'communally' used so generally as to be meaningless. Compare
and contrast mostali 'communes' with aldryami 'communes', class. ;-)
> >More of a Elven 2nd International, perhaps...
> So you're saying somewhere in Sog City there was a former comrade of
> Errinoru who was found with an icepick in the back of his noggin?
Not *that* strong an analogue, mayhap! (Fonrit, maybe.)
Actually, elven 'communism' reminds me not so much of Stalinism, but
of the socialist utopia on Mars in "Vacuum Flowers" -- socialism
doesn't work due to human weaknesses, so simply reprogram human brains
so they it *does* work. Elf brains seem to come conveniently so
programmed...
Sla'n,
Alex.
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