In tones a bit more animated than Henry's own style of lecturing, Chance explains everything she knows about liopleurodons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liopleurodon), plus some things she hadn't known before she died. (Chance died in 2001, before the Aramberri find and subsequent controversy.) "I'm not sure what makes the 'magical liopleurodon' magical. That's where this whole body of Candy Mountain lore comes in. A lot of stuff about shunning the nonbelievers, which suggests a mystery cult. Which would explain why there's so little extant writing about it." She leafs through Cavities and Sea Oddities, until she finds an illustration of a bridge. "The liopleurodon's situated on the way to this supposed Candy Mountain. It 'shows the way' to a 'bridge of hope and wonder'. Some kind of psychopomp legend, maybe?"
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Date: 2007-09-14 06:14 am (UTC)