On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 02:30 AM, lazarus wrote: > That was bizarre. My spell checker suggested "stepmother" as a > replacement for tsalmoth. ... and now you know what a tsalmoth really is. Come on, "tsalmoth maintains though none knows how." You thought it "maintain" was meant in some sort of mystical sense, or referred to the empire as a whole. No, no, no. They're maintaining in the face of the horrific, cruel, thoughtless, heartless acts of their stepchildren. Like not calling on Mother's Day, bringing home That Sort Of Girl/Boy, etc. -Adam