Well, this is kind of an unfair question, then, isn't it? .... But (although this may well be something of a wet blanketpost.. just a warning) I'm not sure some of these posters have considered this very closely. ME in the Third Age is a disintegrating world; beautiful bits of culture and nature are disappearing, a great and more or less apocalypic change is clearly approaching, and there's a very serious war that you can't escape no matter where you are. Getting away from cloning?.. You'll still have to deal with Sharkey at the very least. And it seems unlikely that very many of us would be able to work against it in any way; in fact, we'd stand an excellent chance of being randomly skewered by Orcs, depending on where we chose to hang out. And what with all this going on, I myself would be unlikely to travel much. I don't want to get hurt unnecessarily. Taking all of this into consideration, would you still go?
.....I myself do not know what I would do. I would certainly be afraid, I would certainly experience SEVERE culture shock (particularly when I realized I can't speak one word of ANY language that anyone understands!!), and I would certainly miss things like, oh, running water, cd players, easy access to books (Can I bring any books? No? Not even Rilke? Please?). Also, I would have to give up everything I'm doing(what about my degree?) and I would have to leave everybody I know behind me as I'm sure none of them would want to come once I explain all of this.
On the other hand, to be in a place where the world actually feels REAL... wow. Maybe I wouldn't even need Rilke anymore. But it would be a hard, hard choice.
Sorry if I depressed anyone......
Quote:
I would like to leave my heart
And go walking under the enormous sky
--Rainer Maria Rilke
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--Belin Ibaimendi
[ April 12, 2002: Message edited by: Belin ]