Re: [lojban] Re: Alice - the xorlo version

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:27:22PM -0400, Stela Selckiku wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:21:04PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> ca'o to'e cinri , or similar.
> >
> > Erm.  co'a
> 
> I don't think that seems right at all.  Alice was never interested
> by sitting there in the first place, she found it boring all
> along. 

Yes, you're right; see my other post.

> What's changed at the beginning of the story is just that she's
> finally so sick of being bored that she has to do something about
> it (namely, imagine the rest of the story).

ITYM "dream".  The implication at the end is that around that point
at the beginning is when she fell asleep.

-Robin

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