by Tod Davies
82 Of course this is true of Arcadia, or was in the time before the Civil War began.
83 As has already been remarked, Alan and Mae are common names in Arcadian history. They are also the names of the magistrate who was mother to Lily the Silent, and her second husband, Alan the Freedom Fighter, son of the famous Freedom Fighter Maud Delilah.
84 Lily the Silent often spoke of her dog, Rex, killed in the great Megalopolitan occupation of year 3 (private conversation with the editor).
85 A final note: That stories are real has been proven by Arcadian art and science, though not without violent dissent. That people can only see what they already believe has also been proven as physical fact. The only possible breach to this wall of familiar prejudice is a new idea, though it is accepted that this is extremely rare. For example, the story of Snotty could be an actual history of the birth of Arcadia. This would solve the age-old problem in Arcadian physics of our country’s lack of history from before year 1. And yet, the evidence could be there for all to see, but all would be unable to see, as such a story is out of our experience. It would need another eye—even the eye of another culture, one observing the story with greater objectivity—to introduce the new idea before the story could be seen for what it, in fact, actually is. And this would agree with the new discoveries about the importance of Interactive Partnership in the development of healthy culture (see work being done by students at Hanuman School of Healing, in collaboration with Yuan Mei College).
I mention this now, not as a theoretical possibility, but as a fact. I believe, and say here, that Arcadia was formed by Snotty discovering and accepting who he really is. I believe that Snotty was our first queen, Lily the Silent. I am fully aware of the potential political explosiveness of this idea at this time. But times change. And Truth, of course, is the Daughter of Time. (For discussion of actual personifications of Truth and Time, see Bender Boyce-Flood, year 62.) I rest my conclusions, and my lifetime of scholarship on . . .
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