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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2017-06-17

"By shooting motes into kernels, worldken folk have shifted samesteads of one firststuff into samesteads of another. Thus did they make ymirstuff into aegirstuff and helstuff, and they have afterward gone beyond these. The heavier firststuffs are all highly lightrottish and therefore are not found in the greenworld." -- Poul Anderson (b. 1926-11-25, d. 2001-07-31), "Uncleftish Beholding", 1989

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twistedchick: watercolor painting of coffee cup on wood table (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] twistedchick at 01:59pm on 2017-06-17
I haven't read Poul in a while, and I don't know the source -- but this sounds very quantum physics.
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eftychia: Me in kilt and poofy shirt, facing away, playing acoustic guitar behind head (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 06:31pm on 2017-06-17

It's from "Uncleftish Beholding", his version of an introduction to atomic theory without using Greek or Latin words.

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minoanmiss: A spiral detail from a Minoan fresco (Minoan Spiral)

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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 06:46pm on 2017-06-17
That's exactly what it is!

I had forgotten the wonder of some of these words. "lightrottish" mmm.
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posted by [personal profile] avevale_intelligencer at 09:53am on 2017-06-18
Or in other words, "Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life." Only a couple of Latin words in there...
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eftychia: Me in kilt and poofy shirt, facing away, playing acoustic guitar behind head (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 04:18pm on 2017-06-18

I read it as "...are not found in nature."

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posted by [personal profile] avevale_intelligencer at 06:05am on 2017-06-19
I was adapting to fit a quote...

https://youtu.be/_gjHmEUiaxo
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