Emperor's Singularity

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 22:28:35 +1200


Martin Laurie:

>AF>You keep saying that, and if you know precisely what it means, then I
> >certainly don't know what you mean by it, to grossly paragraph some
> >movie or other. That he's unique? Obviously.

>THANK YOU! You say obviously but I have seen no evidence of this being
>acknowledged at all by anyone. That is what I mean by singular. He is
>unique. He is one. He is alone and is not of a race or a people or a spirit
>group, he is a singular demigod and as such cannot be measured by purely
>human standards, which seems to keep happening. By having a human part of
>him so prevalent, I think that this misses out the alienness of the Emperor
>to his subjects and for _me_ this is NOT MGF at all.

And how do the Great Sister, the Goddess's Daughter and the Emperor's Cousin fit into all this? Methinks Martin has taken a singular statement by Greg, plus a literal reading of the Fortunate Succession's crap about how wonderful he is and blown it out of proportion.

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