From: G. Fried (address.removed@nowhere.tld)
Date: Mon 09 May 1994 - 18:11:21 EEST
G. Fried here.
On the great Elf-breast debate:
Count me in on the pro-breast faction. I agree that the man rune must have
some pretty strong morphological and ethological effects. One of these would
probably be some resemblance to human reproduction. I have never much
cottoned to the idea that elves reproduce by dancing around and shaking pollen
into the air. But, of course, elves are also defined by the plant
rune. Perhaps they do give birth to seeds rather than live young --
seeds which must be planted. But when the child is 'born' of this
seed, it may well still require nourishment.... And if we assume that
elves have sap instead of blood running in their veins, what else
would elven mammaries produce but.... maple syrup!
Martin Crim:
Thanks for your review of and thoughts on Gloranthan metals. I like
the idea that there be a moon metal, such as selenium. Personally, I
had always thought that silver was the metal of the WHITE moon, and
that the (red) lunars had arrogantly presumed to make it their own as
well, assuming that they naturally gather all things lunar to
themselves. This would mean that the Red Moon would have a metal
(selenium?) separate from that of the White Moon. Futher, it would
imply yet another metal for the Blue Moon ('blued' steel?!), and this
might stand as a reductio ad absurdum of my theory, since it seems
a bit excessive to multiply base metals by the number of moons.
What say you?
GF out.
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