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Öjevind Lång

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Dec 16, 2009, 5:44:23 PM12/16/09
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> I'm not sure if I'm animal, vegetable, or mineral. Probably animal.

1. Are you sane?

�jevind

Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III

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On Dec 16, 5:44 pm, Öjevind Lång <ojevind.l...@bredband.net> wrote:
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> > I'm not sure if I'm animal, vegetable, or mineral. Probably animal.
>
> 1. Are you sane?

As sane as what I am usually gets ... yes. And no.

Clams Canino

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On Dec 16, 5:44 pm, �jevind L�ng <ojevind.l...@bredband.net> wrote:
> "Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III" <pseudony...@fats.teunc.org> skrev i
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> > I'm not sure if I'm animal, vegetable, or mineral. Probably animal.
>
> 1. Are you sane?

yes. And no.

2. So you are Elvish then?


Noel Q. von Schneiffel

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Dec 17, 2009, 2:24:23 AM12/17/09
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On 17 Dez., 00:25, "Clams Canino" <cc-mar...@earthdink.net> wrote:
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> On Dec 16, 5:44 pm, jevind L ng <ojevind.l...@bredband.net> wrote:
>
> > 1. Are you sane?
>
> yes. And no.
>
> 2. So you are Elvish then?

3. Do you appear in Tolkien's legendarium?
Of course we both know which writings you appear in, so the core
question is whether your autobiography can be counted into Tolkien's
legendarium, and into which category thereof.

Noel

Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III

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Dec 17, 2009, 1:05:59 PM12/17/09
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On Dec 17, 2:24 am, "Noel Q. von Schneiffel"

<noel.von.schneif...@fats.teunc.org> wrote:
> On 17 Dez., 00:25, "Clams Canino" <cc-mar...@earthdink.net> wrote:
>
> > "Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III" <pseudony...@fats.teunc.org> wrote in messagenews:815320f5-6032-42a8...@j4g2000yqe.googlegroups.com...
> > On Dec 16, 5:44 pm, jevind L ng <ojevind.l...@bredband.net> wrote:
>
> > > 1. Are you sane?
>
> > yes. And no.
>
> > 2. So you are Elvish then?

No.

> 3. Do you appear in Tolkien's legendarium?
> Of course we both know which writings you appear in, so the core
> question is whether your autobiography can be counted into Tolkien's
> legendarium, and into which category thereof.

Treating this as a yes-or-no question, it boils down to: "Is my
autobiography the work of a Divine Being, i.e., TOLKIEN or MORAMBAR?"
The answer to that is no. I am but their humble Representative on
Earth. But that's the real me, not the 20-questions me.

Öjevind Lång

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[snip]

(Thins he is mineral.)

>> > > 1. Are you sane?
>> > yes. And no.
>> > 2. So you are Elvish then?
> No.
>> 3. Do you appear in Tolkien's legendarium?
>> Of course we both know which writings you appear in, so the core
>> question is whether your autobiography can be counted into Tolkien's
>> legendarium, and into which category thereof.
>
> Treating this as a yes-or-no question, it boils down to: "Is my
> autobiography the work of a Divine Being, i.e., TOLKIEN or MORAMBAR?"
> The answer to that is no. I am but their humble Representative on
> Earth. But that's the real me, not the 20-questions me.

So you are a possibly sane non-Elf who thinks he probably belongs to the
mineral kingdom, and also a divine being who has written an autobiography.

4. Are you L. Ron Hubbard?

�jevind

Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III

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On Dec 17, 2:43 pm, Öjevind Lång <ojevind.l...@bredband.net> wrote:
> "Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III" <pseudony...@fats.teunc.org> skrev i
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>
> [snip]
>
> (Thins he is mineral.)
>
> >> > > 1. Are you sane?
> >> > yes. And no.
> >> > 2. So you are Elvish then?
> > No.
> >> 3. Do you appear in Tolkien's legendarium?
> >> Of course we both know which writings you appear in, so the core
> >> question is whether your autobiography can be counted into Tolkien's
> >> legendarium, and into which category thereof.
>
> > Treating this as a yes-or-no question, it boils down to: "Is my
> > autobiography the work of a Divine Being, i.e., TOLKIEN or MORAMBAR?"
> > The answer to that is no. I am but their humble Representative on
> > Earth. But that's the real me, not the 20-questions me.
>
> So you are a possibly sane non-Elf who thinks he probably belongs to the
> mineral kingdom, and also a divine being who has written an autobiography.

Not necessarily. I only said that the real me did write an
autobiography and the unreal me wasn't the same as the real me who
wrote an autobiography, not the unreal me itself wrote an
autobiography buy vi4gra n0w oh both3r not the spam sikness again.

> 4. Are you L. Ron Hubbard?

No.

Noel Q. von Schneiffel

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Dec 18, 2009, 3:59:07 AM12/18/09
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On 17 Dez., 19:05, "Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III"

But there is also the "Wanderings of Blogambar" tale in which you
appear, which is the work of Morambar, who is Tolkien's mouthpiece and
thus de facto identical with Tolkien, on a literary level. So I would
say there is a category "Tolkien's indirect legendarium", which
comprises works not personally written by Tolkien (i.e. with his own
fingers on his typewriter) but which are nonetheless direct products
of Tolkien's will, with Tolkien's spirit physically present. I base
this assumption on the excellent article about categories in Tolkien's
work by Krähe, Pflanzenteich and Forchscrewdriver, Barftat 1887.


> But that's the real me, not the 20-questions me.

You are more than one "me"? Okay:
5. Are you schizophrenic?

Noel

Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III

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Dec 18, 2009, 11:24:12 AM12/18/09
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On Dec 18, 3:59 am, "Noel Q. von Schneiffel"

<noel.von.schneif...@fats.teunc.org> wrote:
> On 17 Dez., 19:05, "Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III"
>
> <pseudony...@fats.teunc.org> wrote:
> > On Dec 17, 2:24 am, "Noel Q. von Schneiffel"
> > <noel.von.schneif...@fats.teunc.org> wrote:
>
> > > 3. Do you appear in Tolkien's legendarium?
> > > Of course we both know which writings you appear in, so the core
> > > question is whether your autobiography can be counted into Tolkien's
> > > legendarium, and into which category thereof.
>
> > Treating this as a yes-or-no question, it boils down to: "Is my
> > autobiography the work of a Divine Being, i.e., TOLKIEN or MORAMBAR?"
> > The answer to that is no. I am but their humble Representative on
> > Earth.
>
> But there is also the "Wanderings of Blogambar" tale in which you
> appear, which is the work of Morambar, who is Tolkien's mouthpiece and
> thus de facto identical with Tolkien, on a literary level. So I would
> say there is a category "Tolkien's indirect legendarium", which
> comprises works not personally written by Tolkien (i.e. with his own
> fingers on his typewriter) but which are nonetheless direct products
> of Tolkien's will, with Tolkien's spirit physically present. I base
> this assumption on the excellent article about categories in Tolkien's
> work by Krähe, Pflanzenteich and Forchscrewdriver, Barftat 1887.

Normally I wouldn't accept Barftat sources without thorough vetting
and possibly killing; but you are absolutely correct that MORAMBAR's
works, indeed His every utterance, be it "Mmmhmmm," is sacred canon
and in essence identical to TOLKIEN's sacred Will. One could carry it
even further, and say that any work by an avatar of TOLKIEN counts,
which would include fairly large swathes of world literature and lead
to a long game. But we can't really do that until further study
reveals what is by TOLKIEN and what isn't. So we'll stick to including
MORAMBAR.

> > But that's the real me, not the 20-questions me.
>
> You are more than one "me"? Okay:
> 5. Are you schizophrenic?

Possibly yes, and maybe no, and Dr. Tollmann issued a monograph on the
subject in AT 21.

Count Menelvagor

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Dec 19, 2009, 5:59:41 PM12/19/09
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On Dec 18, 11:24 am, "Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III"
> subject in AT 21.- Hide quoted text -

6. will you ever give a simple yes-or-no answer to anything?

Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III

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> 6. will you ever give a simple yes-or-no answer to anything?- Hide quoted text -

Probably eventually.

Taemon

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Dec 20, 2009, 8:28:25 AM12/20/09
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Hi! I was gone a few weeks because my computer broke down. Once one gets
used to it, the computerless life is actually quite relaxing. But enough
relaxing to be had! There's nitpicking to be done!

Schizophrenia has nothing to do with multiple personality syndrome.

T.


Raven

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"Taemon" <Tae...@zonnet.nl> skrev i meddelelsen
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> Schizophrenia has nothing to do with multiple personality syndrome.

--- which ten out of five Norwegians have, according to a graffito I saw
once.

Raaf.

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