Re: Stupid stuff you're stuck with now?

One depressing example I can think of, is Tolkien's plan for Middle Earth to originally be flat. The plan was for the world to be Bent later on by plot devices too complicated to go into here. But as time went on, he decided that a flat earth was just too Flat Earth, and he undertook to rewrite the entire megilla from a heliocentric basis. He died before accomplishing it, and no wonder.

Brenda
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