Really, Really Old Books
Feb. 15th, 2016 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponySince Flareblitzfury thought it was a good idea, I've decided to give an open lecture on the Magic of Friendship in Canterlot. I wrote to Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns to inquire if, when, where and under what umbrella program I could give this lecture. I hope they say yes.
As if on cue, Moondancer appeared in my copy of Harcartes' Treatise after I got back from mailing my letter to the CSGU. She has been busy doing original research! I guess getting turned into a ponycicle by an ancient entity has not chilled her ardor for new knowledge. She was prancing with excitement over a few ancient scrolls she and one of those explorers we thawed, professor Clarity Quest, are unraveling.
When Dr. Quest got back to Canterlot, the first thing she did was to get the Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns to finance a dig in some caves in the San Palomino Desert. That and reinstate her position in the department of Physical Equinology and Archaeology, as well as try to negotiate a few hundred years of back pay. The San Palomino dig was to be Dr. Quest's next project when she got interested in the Winter legend. When she didn't come back from a 'vacation up north', the whole project got put on ice and forgotten. Not any longer.
Moondancer was mum on how the dig is going, but they must have found something interesting. Dr. Quest brought in Moondancer, as a thank you, to help inventory and decipher the ancient treasures they've excavated so far. Since Moondancer is well read in absolutely everything, the collaboration is, in her words, working better than Clarity Quest had imagined. Moondancer wouldn't tell me anything else, but she was so excited that she was turning into blur on the page and leaving little eddies in the dust. The book has been open to the same page for a while. She wants to show me what she's found. So I'm going to Canterlot tomorrow.
As if on cue, Moondancer appeared in my copy of Harcartes' Treatise after I got back from mailing my letter to the CSGU. She has been busy doing original research! I guess getting turned into a ponycicle by an ancient entity has not chilled her ardor for new knowledge. She was prancing with excitement over a few ancient scrolls she and one of those explorers we thawed, professor Clarity Quest, are unraveling.
When Dr. Quest got back to Canterlot, the first thing she did was to get the Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns to finance a dig in some caves in the San Palomino Desert. That and reinstate her position in the department of Physical Equinology and Archaeology, as well as try to negotiate a few hundred years of back pay. The San Palomino dig was to be Dr. Quest's next project when she got interested in the Winter legend. When she didn't come back from a 'vacation up north', the whole project got put on ice and forgotten. Not any longer.
Moondancer was mum on how the dig is going, but they must have found something interesting. Dr. Quest brought in Moondancer, as a thank you, to help inventory and decipher the ancient treasures they've excavated so far. Since Moondancer is well read in absolutely everything, the collaboration is, in her words, working better than Clarity Quest had imagined. Moondancer wouldn't tell me anything else, but she was so excited that she was turning into blur on the page and leaving little eddies in the dust. The book has been open to the same page for a while. She wants to show me what she's found. So I'm going to Canterlot tomorrow.
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Date: 2016-02-17 07:52 pm (UTC)Equinology? Hm. I wonder if that's anything like anthropology...
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Date: 2016-02-18 02:21 am (UTC)65 million years? That's a long time. I have my doubts ponies go back anywhere near that far. Maybe the Tree, but even then. I suspect I live in a young universe.
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Date: 2016-02-18 03:15 am (UTC)Would you believe the first dinosaur appeared roughly 231.4 million years ago? They only went extinct 65 million years ago.