Two words about two letters etc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexx S Kay" <alexx at TheWorld.com>
To: "Reen Brust" <reen at mpls.cx>
Cc: "Dragaera Mailing List" <dragaera at dragaera.info>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: Two words about two letters etc.


> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Randi128 at aol.com>
> > (snip)
> >  In the dragaeran world, only the aristocrats are
> > > allowed to learn sorcery, Teckla, the largest group, are generally not
> > > taught, though they are allowed a link to the orb. In _Teckla_ there
is
> > one
> > > teckla who had studied sorcery, on his own, but he is not the norm.
> > > John D. Barbato OD
> >
> > I would say that only the aristocrats are _expected_ to learn sorcery
beyond
> > the easy stuff the Orb basically does on request for anyone who is
linked.
> > I would submit that Dragaeran society as a whole has such a low opinion
of
> > the theoretical top-end Teckla sorcerer, that most Lords don't even
bother
> > to check for potential.  More a case of:  "You'll never be good enough
to be
> > worth the bother of training you."  than:  "This knowledge must be
shielded
> > from you lest you become a danger.".
>
> On the contrary, many Teckla learn sorcery.  They just learn spells
> designed to help them perform their standard agricultural duties.
> We see this in _Athyra_ ("ratkill" spells, others I'm forgetting at
> the moment).  In _Brokedown Palace_, Miklos demonstrated knowledge of
> various wood-shaping spells and basic fire-starting.  I'm AFB, but I'm
> sure there are other examples of "country sorcery".

This is somehow contrary?
>
> Alexx
>
> Alexx Kay
> Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers
> alexx at world.std.com
> http://world.std.com/~alexx
> "This forces the self that exists /behind/ our "front identity" to take
over
>  the wheel of the moving vehicle.  After that, it gets rather difficult to
>  describe, firstly because what is going on isn't remotely human, and
>  secondly because one's self isn't actually present while all this is
>  occurring.  Whoever is in control of the vertical and horizontal, as it
>  were, isn't you.  Recollection of the experience is necessarily
non-linear,
>  fragmentary.  Time, mind, identity, cause and effect... all of these have
>  been behaving in unusual ways.  A certain confusion is forgiveable."
>     -- Alan Moore in correspondence with Dave Sim about _From Hell_

Dare I ask what "This" is?  Is there a particular trigger for the change of
driver?

--Reen
>