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| | From: Wanduring (Original Message) | Sent: 6/10/2004 2:23 AM |
"Plikt closed her eyes, "The Nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is the otherlander, or utlanning, the stranger we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city or country. The second is the framling. This is the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another world. The third is raman, the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another species. The fourth is the true alien, the varelse, which includes all the animals, for with them no conversation is possible. They live but we cannot guess their purposes or causes make them act. they might be intelligent, they might be self-aware, but we cannot know it"." (from the book Speaker of the Dead by Orson Scott Card pg34) |
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