Re: Tomatoes and graffitti

From: Jane Williams <janewill_at_mail.nildram.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:19:51 +0000

Richard Crawley came up with a lovely scenario hook or two.

>the local Lunar garrison are growing tomatoes in the grounds of their
>fort, ... and lo and behold when one is cut the words "Victory to the Red
>Mother who masters demons and drives her enemies before her like chaff
>before the wind"(1) are revealed within.

>These same fanatics will insist on the local garrison marching barefoot
>as the recently-delivered consignment of marching sandals bears a
>locally-applied inscribed decoration which looks suspiciously like the
>verse "The name of the Red Goddess be emblazened across the heavens by the
>souls of the righteous" which must not be soiled by contact with the rude
>earth.

I would just remind you that, acording to the results of a long-ago Digest discussion on Writing, this trick cannot be played the other way. There IS no written form of Stormtongue.

Jane Williams                     jane_at_williams.nildram.co.uk

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~janewill/gloranth/index.shtml

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