: That's a nice theory, but there isn't much proof for
: it
I'd prefer just leaving the very uncommonly used
: term of "unlife" away from general
: discussion for now since we don't know much of
: anything about it, except that it might relate to
: Wights and that The Watcher was searching for its
: respective Dream
Well yeah, you'd prefer to leave it out of discussion, as with many other things you got wrong. :-) Concede the point and move on, dude.
: And Sili's right? :-) I see how it is, hehe; always the
: same :-).
Not at all; I was using "unlife" to mean "sentient undeath," in the belief that I could appropriate the word for my own use because it was never used to describe any actual Myth creatures. How WRONG I was.
: Well, that might be so if unlife is equal to undead.
: I would tend to believe, however, that the Dream of
: Unlife could reverse the state of life and death,
: perhaps; that the dead become alive and the alive
: dead
no undeath or artificial animation.
The Wights are hardly fully alive.
This whole "Un-" argument doesn't make a whole lot of sense. To quote Oxford, "un" is "prefixed to express negation, privation, or with the sense 'not having.'" "Reversal" is hardly a requisite implication.
An uneducated person isn't a formerly educated person who's had his education taken away; an unmade bed need never have been made. Unlife is just the state of lacking life; undeath is the state of lacking death. For something like a Thrall, neither alive nor dead, "Unlife" and "Undeath" are both perfectly appropriate terms.
Having stated that, I should probably bail from this thread, as the chances of a useful discussion continuing off this are close to zero. So let's see if I can keep my mouth shut...
--SiliconDream
