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Post by Finarvyn on Dec 19, 2011 7:46:46 GMT -5
Hazard's Law of Retro-Quotes
A boon for all smart alecs.
"No, you have it all wrong, Jess. I am not quoting from Shakespeare. He is quoting from me." - Hazard
As it happens, she is right, but only by default.
"All things are unreal, unreal or disappointing." - Brand to Llewella, c 1902, also T S Eliot, 1934.
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Post by Finarvyn on Dec 19, 2011 7:46:56 GMT -5
The law of Retroquotes
When anything real happens, it creates echoes. These pass through Shadow, and land in the brains of those who have talent, the "radio receivers" of psychic fallout. For instance, Eliot's masterpiece, "The Wasteland", was most probably composed by Hazard, about a hundred years after she was born. Yet, due to her mucking around in odd Shadows, Eliot was not at that time born. So the question is, how did Eliot know it, having never heard it?
It was already there, in the very substance of Shadow, as indeed is anything real, and waiting for release. When Hazard wrote it down, it was made more real, and the fabric of Shadow could no longer hold it. It was therefore expelled from the fabric of Shadow, and this is the important bit, not just at that time, but at all times, and in all places. It made its way to the brain of the nearest suitable person who could help it get back in - in this case, a poet with a lot on his mind.
This is not to say that the literary greats were no different - they are very different, being real enough to receive the idea that drift out of the Ether. This leads us "to an overwhelming question", as Eliot himself put it. How did they become real? Or, more to the point, how many children did Oberon really have? (Remember, it is not the blood, but the pattern that gives true immortality, so most of his by-blows would be dead by now. But their descendants are everywhere.)
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