From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 25 Apr 1994 - 00:56:06 EEST
John H:
> Alex's diagrams continue to haunt me...
Hey, you started it, pal. Err, `mate'. ;-)
I just wanted to check if you had some extensive real world research of a particular case study/intense personal emotional stake/Official Gregisation/other before I drove a proverbial Kresh wagon through it all. <duck>
> We suspect that the people who make a special
> study of them are frustrated symbolic logicians who
> should be locked away in a mathematics department.
Or computing science depts., perhaps.
> ^ Do these relationships change over a prolonged period?
> (or periodically?)
> These relationships are usually fairly stable, but sometimes have
> to adapt to catastrophes like war, famine, population
> explosion or (a perennial Orlanthi problem) simply wiping
> each other out!
I thought your phraseology seemed to imply the inter-skin relationship might "rotate" or otherwise change on some regular basis. (Compare the tribal customs of university department heads, professors, and planning unit directors, say. ;-/ (To wit, generally the same people with different hats on over a period of time.)) Obviously just my fevered imagination seizing on non-existant evidence.
> Orlanth Martial
Who he? Details, details!
> Not surprisingly, this clan has been swelled by southerners
> since the Lunar invasion
Really? Isn't fleeing north entirely the Wrong Direction for storm worshippers? I can see why lots of Elmali would want to, though.
Alex.
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