On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Bryan Newell wrote: > "Everyone I've asked insists that this thing *is* the Cycle in every > meaningful way, not merely its physical manifestation. I can't make > sense of that, but if you can, more power to you, so to speak." Here "more power to you" strikes me as odd. I think the Translator seldom renders Vlad's speech into what comes across to me as slang.