#forest language

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Jay, Do forests, like people, have different languages depending on the place, or do all forests use the same language?

Mun: The word he's looking for is dialect. They are different dialects of a same overarching language.

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Deutsch-german-german

München is Munich

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Faerie Musings

I have adapted this post from an attempt in other channels to offer an 10,000-foot perspective on “what are faeries?” I have thought with this question often over the years, so the following is based on my experiences and inquiries.

Firstly, I would say that faerie (or whatever variant you want to use[1]) is—like daimon, angel, and even demon—an umbrella term. It winds up including swaths of…

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Black Seas of Infinity

Black Seas of Infinity

In The Brazen Vessel, Peter Grey describes one of his early experiences of contact with Lucifer. He is walking in town on post office business when he encounters a man “sharply dressed, in a three piece suit with a silk waistcoat…strikingly, a black man in what was once the whitest town in England.” They try to avoid just following or crossing the other, but Grey describes what happens when they…

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Translation Mysteries

I am sitting in the Lebanese restaurant that is my go-to when I think I can talk the roommates into going. It’s late afternoon, and the sun is just at a point where I have to lean in at the table to get out of its blinding. A window is open ahead of me, and the sounds of the city are muted, and the breeze and trees are louder, the trees and sky competing with the street and mini-malls. It has…

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