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- From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
- Subject: Re: Elves and death (was Re: "Passing away" into the West)
- Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
- Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:17:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <3122@israel.nysernet.org>
- References: <1992Dec17.100921.12366@leland.Stanford.EDU> <uh311ae.724614395@sunmanager> <1h4n29INNare@mirror.digex.com> <1992Dec21.184346.18877@netcom.com>
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- In <1992Dec21.184346.18877@netcom.com> solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes:
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- >What isn't clear to me is why the elves have any fear of death.
- >F'r'instance, why do they go to all the trouble of maintaining
- >the havens and building ships to return to the West? Why not just
- >fall on their swords? Cheaper, quicker, safer.
-
- It's like showing up without your passport. Never know how long
- you'll be held up at Immigration. And for all we know, the penalty
- for suicide is an extra Age spent in Mandos. What I wonder is, are
- there magazines in the waiting room?
- --
- /|/-\/-\ The entire auditorium Jerusalem
- |__/__/_/ is a very Czarish theft.
- |warren@ But the okra
- / nysernet.org is paranoid.
-