ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[David Casseres]

So, Vormance = "forward divination."  Or varmints, I like that!

On 4/3/07, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- 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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