From: MOBTOTRM@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Date: Wed 06 Jul 1994 - 04:19:36 EEST
G'day everyone!
Barron Chugg writes:
>I had heard the sorry of "not yet", but yours works too. "Hey Greg, got
>a name for that city?" "Not yet." "Got it." (But then Tales published
>Sumwer Rother (or something like that) in the Pamaltela issue.)
Sumware Orother is the home city of that famous Jrusteli trader Sumting Orother, quoted at the beginning of the Aranjara Dreaming issue. I sorta-kinda accidently left the city on the map before it went to production, and was a bit shocked to see it on the finished product. Ah well...
Thanks to the multitudes who have illuminated me as to the true origins of Cor-flu. The stuff is generally called "Liquid Paper" down here, after the first brand on the market. Poms will be intrigued to know that for same reason people here often call sticky-tape "Durex". Americans will be amused to know that the collequial term for a pencil eraser is a "rubber". Even though I recently had to write a letter to a 5th grade child's parents about him bringing mint-flavoured condoms to school, my children frequently come up to my desk and ask for a "rubber".
Jim Chapin, a.k.a Leonidas writes:
> ...both America and Australia were settled bu dissidents or
>criminals, while Canada and Great Britain were countries where the anti-
>revolutionaries won. Suggests a model for social interactions between
>superficially similar societies in Glorantha!
Example might be Carmania (settled by dissidents) and Fronela. By the way, if you ever come to Australia and the immigration or customs official asks you, "Have you got a criminal record?", don't reply "I didn't think you still needed one", as they have heard it at least 187,645 times before.
Paul Reilly:
>Oh, and there are perfectly matter-of-fact reports of "miraculous"
>occurences as well, including people coming back from the dead. If it's
>important I can take the time to look one up. Let me just do a different
>one from memory: why do we believe 99% of what Procopius says in his
histories
>but suddenly balk when he tells us that the Emperor Justinian was possessed
>and was seen by reliable witnesses walking around holding his not-attached
>head? (In the Analecta)?
Procopius's Secret History was known in Greek as the Anecdota, which correctly translated means "Unpublished things" and was used because the book was not published in the author's lifetime, if indeed it ever was published in the ordinary sense of the word. It is available in Penguin Classics - back cover teaser says, "...in all, the vicious side of a splendid city is exposed by Procopius with a candour which is often revolting" (eg. those of you with a taste for prurient history buy this book!)
While Procopius's official works ("Histories", "Buildings") are methodical and chronologically accurate, they are also highly partial - the Penguin Classics translator describes "Buildings" as a "fulsome and tedious work, written in pompous language, and made distasteful by the constant flattery of the imperial pair"). In complete contrast, Procopius's Secret History is the complete reverse, full of venom and spite (and specially trained geese). While I would not go as far as Paul in accepting 99% of what Procopius wrote, if you take his works as a whole - the pros in one volume and the cons in another (just as a modern author might use different chapters or paragraphs), some measure of truth might be found, though very little objectivity.
Procopius's beliefs in the supernatural were commonplace at the time, as was the belief that the wickedness of the monarch would provoke calamities such as plauges or earthquakes.
Just to whet your appetites, here's what I'm bringing over to donate to the auction!
Seller: MOB
Seller Number: Ain't got one yet!
Percentage to Convulsion: 100%
See some of you soon!
Cheers
MOB
X-RQ-ID: Extro
[The rules of the game]
Send submissions and followup to "RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM", they will automatically be included in a next issue.
Please include a Subject: line. Articles without it will be ignored, returned, or delayed.
Selected articles may also appear in a regular Digest. If you want to submit articles to the Digest only, contact the editor at RuneQuest-Digest-Editor@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM.
Send enquiries and Subscription Requests to the editor:
RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Henk Langeveld)
sub list address@your.domain Your Full Name
unsub list address@your.domain
From: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer)
To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Daily automated RQ-Digest)
Reply-To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RuneQuest Daily)
Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Wed, 06 Jul 1994, part 1
Sender: Henk.Langeveld@Holland.Sun.COM
Content-Return: Prohibited
Precedence: junk
X-RQ-ID: Intro
This is the RuneQuest Daily Bulletin, a mailing list on the subjects of Avalon Hill's RPG and Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. It is sent out once per day in digest format.
More details on the RuneQuest Daily and Digest can be found after the last message in this digest.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri 10 Oct 2003 - 01:35:41 EEST