Well, gang, I'm back.
And I'm now a husband, to boot.

I thought to myself (foolishly) that I'd spent a few hours going through
all the messages I'd missed. Ha!
Know how many there were? Two thousand! Two flippin' thousand messages!
What happened to the days when we'd get 20-30 posts a day, tops? :-)

Having flicked through the most recent two hundred:

I quite fancy the idea of being on telly, but, like Lenda says, if
people won't show because of it, it's not a good plan; I'm not that
desperate for my fifteen minutes of fame.
Polgara and Poledra acting as light source and diffraction grating: its
an idea with promise. Sadly, I missed the beginning of the thread, and
joining half way through makes life complex (this is not a call to have
it all repeated!) Personally, my theory is that Polgara has a very
similar mind to her mother's, but that it's 180 degrees out of phase
(possibly due to Poledra's animal origin?), and so the resultant
waveform is flat and therefore unperceivable. It's got holes in it, I
admit, but it keeps me happy. Perhaps the thing that allows one to
perceive another mind is emission of alpha waves? This would allow you
to see thoughts in another's mind (which is why Zandramas, say, can('t)
pick thoughts out of Garion's mind at the end of SoK), and the SuperOwl
could have a mind with only one surface, facing inward rather than
outward (something like a Klein bottle? Topologists?), and there would
then be no surface from which the alpha waves could be emitted.

Aquarius

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