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On 8-Dec-2007, aaronbourque <afbourque@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Dec 8, 12:39 pm, "Magnus, Robot Fighter" <M...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > I wonder if Gaiman knows why the first Despair was killed. If not, a
> > good story could be written about her indirect (or direct) hand in the
> > Death of Krypton.....after all those Kryptonians are persistant,
> > crafty folk.
Do we know that "[t]he person who was responsible for the death of
the first Despair", and who "will take the rest of eternity to die.
Only then will his pain cease..." is a Kryptonian? Where was that
revealed?
> She did have an indirect hand in the death of Krypton. It's revealed
> in a story in the Endless Nights anthology that the first despair
> planted the seed of Rao's destruction in Rao itself.
Yes -- billions of years before Krypton exploded, which was within
living memory of us Terrans. But we know that the first Despair
died at least eighty thousand years ago, the length of the written
history of Litharge. So it seems highly unlikely she also had a
*direct* hand in the death of Krypton.
> Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; himself? Rao's a star, but drawn as
> an anthropomorphically male star. All of the stars in that story are.
? Mizar, the host of the Parliament, certainly looked to me to be
drawn as female. But on a quick re-reading I can't find anywhere
s/he's referred to as either "he/him" or "she/her".
--
Jim Heckman
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