[But it’s too bad these written messages can’t convey the dry jesting tone he would have used to say that.]
This is another place not many people can live. It’s lonely here, when no one ever comes except to climb the mountain, and climbing the mountain is mostly for fools. I heard that there are bodies up there that have been there for hundreds of years. Everyone knows they’re there, but no one can bring them down, or will bring them down. Even in the Frostfangs, there woild be a shadowcat to eat them, but there’s nothing.
It’s strange how like it is here to where we come from, and how different.
[The worlds, he means.]
New Beijing was like enough to New Amsterdam, though. Not the same, but closer to that than either of them is to this.
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[But it’s too bad these written messages can’t convey the dry jesting tone he would have used to say that.]
This is another place not many people can live. It’s lonely here, when no one ever comes except to climb the mountain, and climbing the mountain is mostly for fools. I heard that there are bodies up there that have been there for hundreds of years. Everyone knows they’re there, but no one can bring them down, or will bring them down. Even in the Frostfangs, there woild be a shadowcat to eat them, but there’s nothing.
It’s strange how like it is here to where we come from, and how different.
[The worlds, he means.]
New Beijing was like enough to New Amsterdam, though. Not the same, but closer to that than either of them is to this.