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Hekate

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1. Hmmm, DU as a hedge school. Very good....

Reply to H2O Man (Original post)

Fri Nov 29, 2024, 02:37 PM

Nov 29

Off on a tangent (or maybe not, as my mind works this way) — Terry Pratchett, of Discworld fame, played on the concept of hedge-witches by positing that the most skilled are edge-witches, because they attend to the edges of circumstances. He returns to the thought in several books, but this is from Thief of Time:

An edge witch is one who makes her living on the edges, in that moment when boundary conditions apply—between life and death, light and dark, good and evil and, most dangerously of all, today and tomorrow.

We are at an edge now, aren’t we?

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Hmmm, DU as a hedge school. Very good.... Hekate Nov 29 #1

I think so. H2O Man Nov 29 #2

Great post! Elessar Zappa Nov 29 #3

Thanks! H2O Man Nov 29 #4

I like the notion of DU as a hedge school Saoirse9 Nov 29 #5

Thanks! H2O Man Nov 29 #6

Well. I don't know if I actually hate Saoirse9 Nov 29 #7

Yes. H2O Man Nov 29 #8

I ravenously consumed "In the Absence of the Sacred" misanthrope Dec 5 #9

Jerry was H2O Man Dec 5 #10

Rage.................. Against The Machine Celerity Dec 5 #11