Tandra Page 1094, May 30, 2010

Created on 06/01/2010

by Hanther

And the winner is...(drum roll); Phil Suggs of Kansas!

He writes, “I think David Galon does not see Kaliste because Kaliste is an illusion and Galon is not susceptible to illusions.”

Not quite the full story, Phil, but close enough to secure the prize drawing. It’s in the mail! Also, thanks to all the other 527 Tandra fans who sent in your answers. Many of them were very perceptive and well thought out, even if they were wrong. Some were simply a lot of fun to read. My favourite remains the suggestion Galon is unable to see Kaliste because he needs glasses really, really bad.

As for the official answer which Phil came close to, but did not hit the bullseye, “Galon does not see Kaliste because he accepts the Tandra Universe as it is and has no desire to alter or compromise the integral laws as they exist for the world about him. Kaliste is not real but a projection of unreality and Galon does not see illusions.”

This week’s assertion by Galon that he will not be ruled nor will he rule over others (first expressed on Tandra Page 447) is a consequence of his affirmation of the universe as an objective entity subject to neither arbitrary wish nor whim and an extension of the characters fidelity to the supremacy of the natural laws of reality. He understands the lust to rule over others is the ultimate attempt by both ruler and those who submit to the flight from reality, to replace the necessity of complying with the unalterable laws of reality with the arbitrary wish or momentary whim, to replace reality with “magic”, if you will, where the only requirement for obtaining whatever one might desire is access to the proper arrangement of words that, when repeated, will produce the desired gain from nothing. It is the insistence that; “I wish, therefore I should have whatever I want.” As confessed by Kilthane, he was first aware of Kaliste while he was scheming to place other men under the force of his will. Kaliste appeared to him at that time to encourage and advise him in his quest to rule. Those who would rule over others are motivated by an eternal anus-clenching terror of reality and those who submit to a ruler’s power are inspired to do so by the same unrelenting terror. The tyrant seeks to escape his terror of what is real by imposing his wishes upon those in his power while those willing to submit to being ruled hope the ruler will bend reality for their advantage. Ultimately, both ruler and those he seeks to rule are doomed to disappointment. The laws of reality are not subject to modification nor to repeal. The degenerate who would rule and those who would submit to their rule seek to replace the law of reality with the law of the wish. But, because the universe refuses to allow the rule of the wish and the law of the arbitrary whim, there must be someone available to do the actual work required to make the tyrant’s wish come to pass. That someone is the slave in the chains of the tyrant. It is the requirement of the slave to provide the “magic” to make the tyrant’s “magic” come to pass. Because Galon does not expect the universe to grant his arbitrary wish, he has no use of slaves and, of consequence, no desire to rule over men and, thus, no need of Kaliste.

So, how does Kaliste actually come to be? How is this god generated. What allows those who would reject a rational universe and replace it with one subject to arbitrary wish or “magic” to see the image of Kaliste, a god that presents a different image of itself unique to each individual viewer? We are so glad you asked. Stay tuned.

There is only one man more degenerate and contemptible than one who would rule others. That man is the one who submits to be ruled by another.

May the sun always shine on your parade!

Next Week; “Queen Of Dragons”

Tandra...more than escapist fantasy, it’s a revolution!

Hanther

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