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Jay Gatsby (gatz) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2013-03-02 10:07:00

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brotherofdemons
2013-03-02 05:23 pm UTC (link)

I rather doubt it. There are a few pregnancies underway here and we had a rather nasty influenza outbreak a few weeks ago that killed a good number of people. If it were the afterlife I don't see how either thing would be happening, but every culture has a different version of it so who knows?

Ah, someone a bit closer to my time then. Where were you from before this? As I said, I was in Egypt but my family is British. We're Egyptologists so we spent the excavating seasons there and summer back in England.

Yes, well, it seems the island draws people from many different realms so there is quite a mixture. Those from our world tend to be from the late 20th or early 21st century so I would imagine there has been quite a shift in culture.

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gatz
2013-03-02 05:47 pm UTC (link)

Well, that is certainly reassuring. I know it must sound odd, but I was quite sure I had died before I arrived here. Must have simply fainted with fright.

Indeed. I was at my home in Long Island, New York. My family is from out West, but I was educated at Oxford, and thereafter spent some time doing a spot of traveling. Nothing quite like your sort of exploring, you understand. That certainly sounds like a fascinating way of life.

It sounds like something out of a Wells novel. I can scarcely believe this is happening.

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brotherofdemons
2013-03-02 10:31 pm UTC (link)

I'm glad I could provide some reassurance.

I've never been to Long Island. I have been to some lectures at Oxford and Cambridge but my father wasn't much of a believer in institutional learning and my education was mostly a private affair. Traveling is a good way to learn, especially if you go outside of the areas tourists usually stay.

It can be quite fascinating if one has the means, but at the same time my family seems to attract more than our fair share of trouble.

It does rather remind me of The Time Machine.

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	gatz 2013-03-02 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	It's nice enough, especially in the summer. I'm inclined to agree with your father. I learnt a lot more from traveling than I ever did in a classroom. I see. Does that sort of work often attract a bad sort? Yes, quite. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

brotherofdemons
2013-03-02 11:49 pm UTC (link)

England can be quite pretty in the summer, but I've never found any landscape as beautiful as that of the Nile valley around Luxor at sunrise and sunset. I suppose I'm more Egyptian than English with all the time I spent there as a child.

From what I've seen of most products of that system I can't say I'm impressed with it. It creates a certain rigidity in thinking.

Well antiquities attracts both those who want to see the past preserved and documented for the world, and those who only care for personal profit. My family tended to get entangled with the latter whilst trying to do the former. But I can't say I really know any other way of life so it is normal to me. Frustrating at times, but normal.

A whole century in the future!

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