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HOLLOW_AMBER

                                                         January 31, 2003


  "It's pretty obvious from this that Amber is itself
  a shadow, and a pretty thin one at that, a
  half-realized and two-dimensional fantasy drawing
  from what is really the one true world - ours."

        -- Endymion of alt.gothic, in the thread
           "[alt.gothic.bookworms] Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint"

Our present earth is just a shadow
of the perfection that is Amber?
                                        MAKER
  Okay, that plays.

     But when you get to Amber, you
     discover that the one true reality
     is a cardboard, quasi-medieval
     place populated by a handful of           The disappointment
     spiteful siblings (and a nation of        of Galifrey.
     largely unseen spear carriers).


  If Amber is the perfect city,
  I'd rather hang in Gibson's Sprawl.


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