From sentto-44114-18679-1046348304-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Thu Feb 27 04:19:05 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:19:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from n12.grp.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.66.67]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 18oN04-0008H8-00 for lojban-in@lojban.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:18:56 -0800 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-18679-1046348304-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.95] by n12.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Feb 2003 12:18:24 -0000 X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_4); 27 Feb 2003 12:18:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 21162 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2003 12:18:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Feb 2003 12:18:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2003 12:18:24 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18oMzY-0007Ek-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:18:24 -0500 To: conlang@listserv.brown.edu, conculture@yahoogroups.com, langdev@yahoogroups.com, lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@yahoogroups.com; contact lojban-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:18:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: [lojban] CHAT: Strange Powers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 4191 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cowan@ccil.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Apologies for the self-indulgent crosspost. I finally nailed down the correct text of the Strange Powers quotation I've been mangling all these years. Kudos to ibooks.net for reprinting Cordwainer Smith's _Norstrilia_. The Lord Redlady leaped to the middle of his own floor. He was no prancing Earthman putting on a show. He was the old Instrumentality itself, surviving with raw weapons and raw brains. In his hand he held a *something* which none of them could see clearly. "Murder," he said, "will be done this moment if anybody moves. I will commit it. I will, people. Move, and try me. And if I do commit murder, I will arrest myself, hold a trial, and acquit myself. I have strange powers, people. Don't make me use them. Don't even make me show them." The shimmering thing in his hand disappeared. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/