ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[Dave Monroe]

--- David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alden Vormance.  All' den vor Mann's.  Can any of
> our German-speakers do anything with that?

Using ...

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

All' den vor Mann's = All' before Mann's

Alles den vor Mann's = Everything before Mann's

However ...

vor = fowards (Ger.)

ENTRY:	wer-
DEFINITION:	Conventional base of various Indo-European
roots; to turn, bend....

http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE571.html

-mancy = divination, prophecy (Gr.)

http://www.bartleby.com/61/26/M0072600.html

http://www.wordquests.info/cgi/ice2-for.cgi?file=/hsphere/local/home/scribejo/wordquests.info/htm/L-Gk-mancy-A.htm&HIGHLIGHT=mancy

   "'It was some sort of prophesy, then?' asked Dr.
Vormance.
   "'Not quite as we're used to thinking of it,'
Throyle replied. "For us it's simple ability to see
into the future, based on our linear way of regarding
time, a simple straight line from the past, through
present, into the future. Christian time, as you might
say. But shamans see it differently. Their notion of
time is spread out not in a single dimension but over
many, which all exist in a single, timeless instant.'"
(AtD, Pt. II, p.

Also ...

Vormance --> varmints?


 
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