What if it's not slang? Now THAT sends shivers down my spine. (so to speak.) What if that is one test of a wizard (witch/sorcerer/ElderSorcerer wrapping the arts together with your soul in one object) as described per Issola: to comprehend the physical manifestation of The (real/manifest) Cycle in the Paths. IOW, you gain some sort of mystical power by comprehending The (real/manifest) Cycle in the Paths. James Griffin, Still Another Vlad faN >From: Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> >To: dragaera at dragaera.info >Subject: RE: [SKZB] Great Cycles [was Reborn Phoenix] >Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:08:56 -0700 (PDT) > > > >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.