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<b>Message ID:</b> 11328 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Mon Dec  6 20:34:17 GMT 1999 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> Robin Wise 3 <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Sometimes it&#39;s Hard to be a Bard <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-307590810"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;Message: 17<br/>
&gt;    Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 13:13:36 -0600<br/>
&gt;    From: Talies the Wanderer &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:snicker@...">snicker@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Subject: Re: Sometimes it&#39;s Hard to be a Bard<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;At 08:52 AM 12/6/99 -0800, you wrote:<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Absolutely wonderful =)<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;But - um.. what does the second-to-last stanza refer to?<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I&#39;m very sad to say I had the horrid luck to see<br/>
Upon the plain, through fog and rain, The Thing That Must Not Be.<br/>
To show their ire, the gods rained fire, and both of us were charred...<br/>
Apparently the gods could see the Thing but not the bard.<br/>
<br/>
Hmmm on rereading it this morning it seems less clear than it did at 1am <br/>
last night. = P  Basically, the point of this stanza was to show how bards <br/>
can be stricken by the wrath of the gods because they were standing too near <br/>
the gods&#39; actual target.  I&#39;ll look for a way to make this more clear.<br/>
<br/>
Aloro Silvertongue (E&#39;ci)</div>