: I still disagree about that meaning of the phrase 'living
: memory'... if he was referring to all of known
: history, why didn't he just say "history" or
: "in all of history"? That narrator knows so
: little of his own immediate past I don't think he'd
: ever dare to make a statement as grand as that.
: Unless something far more convincing comes along, I
: cannot find myself thinking "all of history"
: and "living memory" to be interchangable
: terms. That nuance of meaning imo is stretching it a
: bit.
All of history would mean everything that anyone knows about the past. Living memory would be anything that the narrator himself knows of history but didn't necessarily experience first hand.
: Doom said that the Watcher was an Avatar. I never said
: the Watcher was an Avatar. I think the previous poster
: mistakenly made it sound like he said the sentence to
: which you are referring. It was actually my statement.
: *He* believes the Watcher was an Avatar.
Oh yes, I see my mistake. It just looked like Doom said it because the": " was missing from the beginning of that line. I thought the "but" was referring to his next line but in fact it was an unfinished sentence. Sorry for the bemusement and thank you for clearing it up.
