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#141130 03/22/05 07:47 AM
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Huh?


#141131 03/22/05 11:04 AM
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Are there some, then?

I thought the Maaori chopped them all down to make their flutes and pipe organs.


#141132 03/22/05 12:03 PM
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>I thought the Maaori chopped them all down to make their flutes and pipe organs.

Don't forget the zzxjoanws.


#141133 03/22/05 04:50 PM
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Huh? Heh--I thought maybe all the sheep and lambs had eaten 'em all...


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Making Pfranz the occasional goat of the joke??



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#141135 03/22/05 11:15 PM
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the zzxjoanws

I thought they was the flutes.


#141136 03/22/05 11:22 PM
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the zzxjoanws

I thought they was the flutes.


Nope, they are alleged to be drums. The flutes are real, as here:
http://www.inza.co.nz/RN/RN_Instrument4.html.


#141137 03/23/05 11:33 AM
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Man. Gotta get a copy editor to clear out that JDM® and fix up the errors.


#141138 03/24/05 04:34 AM
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“The Wood between the Worlds”

I may be looking at this too simplistically, but if I recall correctly from my own childhood reading of the Narnia books, the passage between the two worlds was a wardrobe: one opened the front door, pushed through the clothes, and came to the back of the wardrobe, which was the door to Narnia. So, what is the back of a wardrobe made of? Wood, of course: “the wood between the worlds.”

Just a guess as to an alternative meaning –



#141139 03/24/05 04:44 AM
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Though apparently written out of order, the book that describes the formation of Narnia is The Magician's Nephew; while it is the second book that is entitled The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, though I think it was the first published.

The Wood is quite an important part of the first book.



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