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Okay, so I've been thinking about the creation story and wanting to add some more to it. A bit of the technical aspects of the language. I also don't think that they would have used the word time. So, for example, the narrator refers to the people of the horse and the people of the cow. And why they exist. The people of the horse don't believe their time was meant for staying in one place. Let's just say that for now. But the word time here assumes a bit of an abstract concept of, you know, there is some accounting being done of just how, you know, a bit of the concept of time. An accounting being done of how the moments in our daily lives, the sun coming up and down past, you know, regularly. So, I think it would be a bit more, would use more references of their world at the time. And so, instead of saying, you know, how they would spend their time, that is, you know, really not the right way to, I mean, that's not, like, contextually, I think, accurate. I think they would have said, perhaps, there are those who, or perhaps, if they, if they call themselves humans, or not humans, but, you know, the two-feet walkers. Those who walk with two feet do not want to watch the sun and moon from the same place, from the place of their birth. They want to watch the sun and moon from a different place. You know, every, every 30 sons. There are those who wait every 30 sons and move to see the sun and moon under different skies or under, to watch the moon under the green trees, to watch the moon under the white trees. They watch the sun where the ground is made of the hard cold water, the rock water. And they watch the moon from the place of the moving rocks. They travel to where the moving rocks turns to moving water. And they watch the sun rise. And they hunt for the animals of the water. They travel to where the ground is green, but there are no trees. And they hunt the big cows that run very fast. They travel to the land where the ground is white, the rock water. And they live inside a house, a hut made from the rock water. And they wear many, many skins of the animals they have hunted. These are the, these are the moving people. The people of the horse, the people of the camel, the people of the slow horse with the hill on its back and the people of the fast horse. We are the people who stay in one place. We are the people who do not travel, who do not move beyond the land of our village, of our birthplace. We are the people who watch the soil, watch the ground. And when it is thirsty, we give it water. Rewards us, it thanks us, it blesses us with the bread plant, the being plant, the rice plant. We have to think of another word, although we can call it the plants, it could be the trees, the small rice trees, the small bread trees, and the small bean trees. Everything is a tree. A bit of a little commentary on the technical aspects of early writing and stories of creation.
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Okay, so now that I've kind of got the plot or the events to take place in the first chapter and the basic structure of the story and the creation story, what is in that letter that makes Lawrence so excited? It's one that is from England. I think the fact that she would open it up and discover that there are many letters in one. And that they're from people all over the world. I think it's crazy to... It just flows on mind. All of a sudden she feels like she has been granted an opportunity to see the world in a way that you know what else can see it. She feels that she can talk to someone. Well, these people are talking to each other from all over the world. So, and how do they do that? Well, there are many copies of every letter. When you add yourself, when you respond to the right link and the left link, take the... Take the portions that they like of your letter and add them along, sort of like a chain letter. And the idea is that as long as you have many chain letters going at once, and as long as you have the ability to send them a relatively short distance, you know, breaking the bank with postage. So it doesn't make sense to send them, you know, send the same letter to India, to China, to Germany, to Africa. It makes sense to take your letter and put it up into smaller pieces of text. And the portions receive this chain letter, but then responds to it like a real letter and that's what throws off the right link. And it starts the kind of alerts in the group. Oh, this person doesn't know. This person is somehow gotten the whole thing of the letter and his new.
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So what do they do when they find out that they have essentially a new member? Does he ignore her simply because she knows? Does she receive a letter from England and then respond to that letter? That would be really cool if somehow she sends the letter to England and then in England, it triggers a response from another country. So let's say she writes to England that somehow let's pick a far away place that it's impossible for that to have traveled. How do they do that? She'll receive a response from South Africa. Now, Australia, South Africa or Australia, Australia could be another and it might even be better. So after she receives the first letter, she sends it off. And then what appears to be like a short amount of time, three weeks, she gets a response from Australia. But this letter is more of an acknowledgement that this is proof. It's clear that you have opened one of our letters and you are aware of us to some extent, to the extent that is present in that letter. We need to know about you. We are very private. We do not like it. The wrong people knowing about us. We prefer only to be known by cautious, considerate, careful people. So we require that you complete an application. And after careful consideration, we will determine whether or not you belong in our organization. So, please answer the following questions. What's important is that you only do answer the questions truthfully. And once you've answered the questions truthfully, we will return to Thumbelow to a third address. Perhaps it's an address. In 1953, it could be an address in Hawaii. It would be, yeah, something like that. If she sends it off to Hawaii, perhaps there's someone there who can send it on to Japan. Yeah, something like that. So, yeah. So, she sends it off, but the kinds of questions that they ask are ones like. Do you pick a diary? If it's a, is it private? Are you? What kind of role have you have in your school? Are you in a straight-A student? What types of books have you read? Are you religious? We are this first. We don't care about your age as long as you can write. As long as you're willing to write. And you don't want to send any pictures. You're not going to be able to read. You're not going to be able to read. You're not going to be able to read. You're not going to be able to consider who is going literary self. What words do you use? And we don't want you to mimic famous authors. We can be inspired by them. So, if say, for example, you hear from a member who refers to themself as a chaucer. Well, that would be inappropriate. There's only one chaucer of England. However, you may refer to yourself as the daughter of chaucer. You may refer to yourself as chaucer in the madhouse or something referring to perhaps your inspiration and the personal journey that you're on. In your case, you will be. You could be Florence of the cotton fields. You could be Florence of La Mesa. Although that's revealing where you really are from. Something referring to perhaps a cowboy literature. You are clearly. Although I don't know about you, I presume you are either Catholic or Baptist. You could. You could.