Jdvn1
Hanging in there. Better than the alternative.
Yes, Gamer, there is a fourth edition.
"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no fourth edition.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a fourth edition?
"GAMER.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."
GAMER, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Gamer, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, GAMER, there is a future edition. It exists as certainly as dice and pizza and mountain dew exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no future editions. It would be as dreary as if there were no GAMERS. There would be no childlike joy then, no rolling, no character builds to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in fourth edition! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the gaming stores in May 2008 to catch fourth edition, but even if they did not see fourth edition delivered, what would that prove? Nobody sees fourth edition, but that is no sign that there is no fourth edition. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing in Oerth? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only imagination, fancy, GMs, players, game designers, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, GAMER, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No future editions! Thank Heironeous! they exist, and exist forever. A thousand years from now, Gamer, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, they will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
(apologies to the Church family and to the Sun)
"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no fourth edition.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a fourth edition?
"GAMER.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."
GAMER, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Gamer, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, GAMER, there is a future edition. It exists as certainly as dice and pizza and mountain dew exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no future editions. It would be as dreary as if there were no GAMERS. There would be no childlike joy then, no rolling, no character builds to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in fourth edition! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the gaming stores in May 2008 to catch fourth edition, but even if they did not see fourth edition delivered, what would that prove? Nobody sees fourth edition, but that is no sign that there is no fourth edition. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing in Oerth? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only imagination, fancy, GMs, players, game designers, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, GAMER, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No future editions! Thank Heironeous! they exist, and exist forever. A thousand years from now, Gamer, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, they will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
(apologies to the Church family and to the Sun)
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