GR translation: You will want cause and effect.

[Mike Jing]

I gotcha. Will tweak the wording further accordingly. Thanks for the reply.

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Protomen <protomen at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> Admittedly was taking the general sense, can't place the passage from
> memory, but looking it up:
> At the end of the previous chapter Katje is only told “We have someone who
> was with Blicero in May. Just before the end."; now it turns out to be
> Thanatz. Thanatz!? You will want cause and effect: a link between Thanatz on
> the Anubis and Thanatz being here now. All right. Can do. So you have this
> pole trying to get hit by thunder on a rowboat... almost like building up to
> a feghoot, anywhere else it would sound like sarcasm, making up grotesque
> excuses on purpose. Even out of context it's much in the tone of the book to
> lightly tease you "oh you want causality, sure, that's how much your
> causality is worth, I'm just fibbing," storytelling that is, now back on
> track this is how it goes... etc.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: GR translation: You will want cause and effect.
> Local Time: 14 janvier 2017 4:38 PM
> UTC Time: 14 janvier 2017 15:38
> From: gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
> To: Protomen <protomen at protonmail.com>
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> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Protomen <protomen at protonmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "Cause and effect" is an idiom referring to the notion of causality in
>> general -- I don't think what's meant in that sentence is "the" cause and
>> "the" effect of what happened, rather a cause-and-effect relationship
>> within
>> the happenings, as in a rational basis to otherwise disjointed elements.
>
> In a general sense, you are right of course. And that's what I had
> during the first pass. But given the context, I'm having second
> thoughts, thus the original question.
>
> So, how does the notion of causality relate to the current context?
>
>
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