[JMR201908081727: Backup of https://joelrees-novels.blogspot.com/2019/07/heathen-in-kingdom-of-peace-note-from-jeremy.html]
I suppose you'll think it goes without saying. Still, the parallels
between the Union of Independent States and your United States of
Columbia -- No? Oh. Amerigo. America. Whatever. There are rather strong
parallels, but they are not the same.
Xhilr is not your world.
There
will be some who say the Kingdom of Peace is a proxy for some country
on your Earth. For the sake of those who will cry Privacy! and Cultural
Appropriation! -- It is not.
Springmoon and Mei had to
think twice about it, but they decided we are far enough separated in
spacetime that, by the point at which the privacy issues might matter,
neither you nor we will have any reason to care that they are mentioned
on your world. Hailey doesn't speak to me, but, when she last did, she
told me she didn't believe in my fantasy worlds. I don't think her
husband does either.
Names are at best approximately
symbolic anyway. You would not recognize the actual name, in either the
language of the Fishers (my language) or the language of the People of
the Dawn (Springmoon and Mei's).
Of necessity, I borrow
Joel's voice. I trust his translation. And since I have no use for
money or other legal instruments from Earth, I assign Joel the
copyrights in your world. I trust him not to play intellectual property
games with them.
[I've got a handle the part about intellectual property games. Let's hope I get close on the translation -- Joel.]
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