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Knowing a barrage of "stop this" posts will follow: Karellan hid behind a screen that would not let the negotiator see him until the negotiator obtained a device to pierce the screen. Then he understood why Karellan's race would not move among the humans. Somewhere deep in their race memory or genetic code, this shape was the shape of the light bringer which they had learned to associate with the end of the world, the race of lucifer. When childhood's end came and they evolved into the next higher form, they did not fear Karellan who now moved among them openly as through many generations of careful guidance, they had learned to leave such superstitions behind. Yet as the humans evolved into the next form, Karellan made note to himself some aspect of the humans that he wanted to report to his masters for use in the eternal task of understanding the hidden motives of the one whose purposes remained forever hidden to them yet whom they willingly served and bided their time for without that understanding, they could not evolve. Prometheus, a Titan, did not think it wise to keep fire from the mortals. The children of Zeus understood the mortals would evolve past a need for them and wanted to keep that from happening for as long as possible. Being a Titan without a need for worship, Prometheus did not care. He knew the mortals were the future and one brave act was left to his own race. Brave Odysseus was a man who wanted more than any other thing to go home from the senseless war that had taken the lives of the best, the strongest, the most valiant of his land. Along the way, both titan and god tried to stop him, but such was his desire and commitment, even the powers of immortals could not change his self-chosen destiny. Fear of the future is the siren that begs one to yield to death. Tie yourself to the mast and listen if you must, but do not abandon ship. When Microsoft became one of the first and foremost of the titans to support markup, it may or may not have fully understood what such support would do its product lines. It did know that such evolution was inevitable and irresistable and decided that it would be better to go forward than to simply stand on the sidelines and carp. Those that did know what it would do have patiently waited to see the next form. Better bad XHTML than good RTF. Patience. len http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...] Don't trust the people with hooves. Did you ever read "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke? Reminds me of another story, though. Some guy named Prometheus, who took the technology of the elite and gave it to the masses. When he "bundled" fire, though, without requiring anything in return from the humans, that was one step too far..
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