In a message dated 6/17/2003 6:21:42 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> People are already encouraged to add to the Encyclopedia, although there > haven't been any major submissions for a while. I have yet to get around to > > adding some minor material like William Taylor's ongoing Alvin humor or > short > Galactic Aphorisms that I once solicited. -------A more serious reply than Tytlal streetwalkers. So the "i" was left in. Trent, I have no idea how much of my silliness can become gospel, and how much will remain an Uplift Urbane Legend. Saying that a Dorrvi will go insane if there isn't another one there to scratch its back is a perfectly harmless bit of fluff--until you figure out a way to use it in a gaming campaign or a Brin uplift story as a major plot point for obtaining Jophur secrets. A southerner saying "spine" and "spying" will confuse any galactic translator--and that could be what triggers the story in the first place. Anything about Alvin absolutely depends on these following points being gospel: 1. After one year, due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, it was finally decided that no Galactic Institute could take any action against any race involved with the Jijo settlement. 2. Not hearing from Alvin, his journal is published after that decision. 3. Hurmuphta is not the Hoon homeworld 4. Rousit are just stage one, having been discovered after Hoons settle on Jijo. Everything else develops off of these plot points. And anything different, I would argue, would be both unexpected and less interesting to any story told on Hurmuphta. Timing is what I don't know. If the Mikado story can be told two years after the end story (3 years after Streaker's return), the Alvin's firstborn should be female, to have more fun having her play with a human doll. If five or six years, then C'mell (tentative name) becomes the second born and Alvin has a first born son. It all depends on when the war front leaves Galaxy Two. And that's our good Dr. Brin's scheduling. (And I won't spoil it by saying _why_ the war changes.) Meanwhile I can have Mudfoot writing haiku editorials lambasting hoonish stoginess. Old men teach on truth Student sees Spring through window Who here is wisest? William Taylor _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
