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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.
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Date: 2010-04-12 09:13 am (UTC)Because it is the thing to do and gives them cultural brownie points. Sigh.
People who read without love and passion - meh: I really hate that type of criticism which goes around marking writers out of ten on some scale, done by people who don't seem to have ever read for pleasure, or have given it up as insufficiently serious and academic.