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- From: dagolden@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Alexandre Golden)
- Subject: Re: Garion/Ce'Nedra <--> Durnik/Polgara
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.020410.12296@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:04:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.132647.5811@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> crosby@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Crosby) writes:
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- >Yes, she lives a long time, but her age is definately finite. Remember: In
- >_King of the Murgos_ the Dryad queen (Xena?) said she would be dieing soon.
- >So, the problem just gets put off--but it still comes around. And then there
- >is the problem of the royal heir. Geran is going to be sitting around a long
- >bloody time, and since he is probably not sorcerous, will probably die before
- >Garion.
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- How about abdication? Garion was never really cut out to be king anyway. So
- raise Geran to be king, abdicate, and then go off to do whatever the rest of
- the sorcerers are doing now that they are essentially out of the "lets save
- the world business".
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- >This problem has been debated endlessly in this group, with no real
- >result. It is my opinion that Eddings just doesn't want to deal with this,
- >so he ignores it, and it remains one of those things that really aren't meant
- >to be answered. Immortality has always presented problems like this to autho\
- >and the only one I can think of who has ever tackled them was Tolkien.
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- Zelazny? Heinlein?
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- David A. Golden '95 (dagolden@phoenix.princeton.edu)
- Princeton University
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