Seswatha's Elju(s)

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« Reply #30 on: July 10, 2013, 01:35:45 am »
Perhaps the non-man just doesn't have any choice about 'birth' - that is what 'becoming' is like. To beget, without choice. He can only make his nest.

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« Reply #31 on: July 10, 2013, 07:46:44 pm »
So you mean that they are  working with some kind of limited 'life span', and they can tell when their 'life' is nearly spent? Thats an interesting idea.
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« Reply #32 on: July 13, 2013, 06:44:37 pm »
Makes me wonder if RSB is struggling with conveying all the info in the allotted pages the publisher will allow...  These books are damn short in comparison to the page counts of some authors which sell more.  This book is never coming out.

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« Reply #33 on: August 08, 2013, 01:14:12 pm »
Perhaps the non-man just doesn't have any choice about 'birth' - that is what 'becoming' is like. To beget, without choice. He can only make his nest.

Like a bunch of mad Timelords running around, though only experiencing 'time travel' via their own effed-up minds and broken psyches.  They occasionally become new incarnations of themselves.  Nice!
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« Reply #34 on: August 13, 2013, 01:43:35 pm »
I don't have time to adequately cover what I want to at the moment - in a couple days.

However, for those curious, I was reminded of a course I took some years ago and I think Aristotelian Essentialism offers us a unique perspective on Nonman, Erraticism, and, perhaps even, the Intact.
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« Reply #35 on: March 15, 2014, 06:42:50 pm »
If being an elju has something to do with being the recipient of dreams (mandati as seswatha's elju) is someone making an elju out of Kellhus?

Before this thread, I had assumed that elju's were a sort of simple thing--after the nonmen were cursed with living forever, they would eventually break down, become erratic.  At this point an erratic might acquire a book to be there in case he remembered something, the book functioning as salvager of whatever pops up.  Plus the book gives you a daily does of pain (kosoter using the chorae on cleric) to help you hold your shit together.  Bonus, keep the elju long enough and it starts to become important to you.  Kill it and experience a brief ecstacy or remembering!

But there's got to be more, it's Earwa, not Earth.

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« Reply #36 on: March 19, 2014, 02:32:10 pm »
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Before this thread, I had assumed that elju's were a sort of simple thing-

Some of us have been here too long. No simple explanations are acceptable at this point. We need complexity to give life breadth, to save us from it's knife's edge.
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« Reply #37 on: March 19, 2014, 04:29:07 pm »
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Before this thread, I had assumed that elju's were a sort of simple thing-

Some of us have been here too long. No simple explanations are acceptable at this point. We need complexity to give life breadth, to save us from it's knife's edge.

LOL!  Just hope Bakker's writing for our audience!

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« Reply #38 on: March 20, 2014, 09:36:34 am »
Lol - I think we are a happy correspondence of cause. If he was only writing for us, he wouldn't be making any money.

Again - people who discuss books online are a small percentage of book-buyers.
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« Reply #39 on: March 20, 2014, 10:52:49 am »
Lol - I think we are a happy correspondence of cause. If he was only writing for us, he wouldn't be making any money.

Again - people who discuss books online are a small percentage of book-buyers.

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« Reply #40 on: March 20, 2014, 12:19:43 pm »
It could happen :o?
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« Reply #41 on: March 20, 2014, 04:00:52 pm »
Who would the princess be?
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« Reply #42 on: March 20, 2014, 04:42:54 pm »
Who would the princess be?

Young Sorweel and Serwa fly into the sunset in a nonman chariot.

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« Reply #43 on: March 20, 2014, 09:06:17 pm »
I'm actually thinking Sorweel and Mimara are going to get along.
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« Reply #44 on: March 27, 2014, 12:48:54 pm »
Serwe and Mimara for sure.
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