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   stephen@nomail.com wrote:   
      
   > In rec.arts.books.tolkien Christopher Kreuzer    
   > wrote:   
   >> nystulc@cs.com  wrote (in response to bits by Steuard   
   >   
   >>> Much forgotten history is likely to be recovered when one overthrows   
   >>> an immortal dictator and gains access to her secret archives.   
   >   
   >> I don't think you can postulate the existence of secret archives to   
   >> restore Narnian history. Just have those beavers who said something   
   >> along the lines of "us talking animals don't forget". Which was always a   
   >> bit annoying, I thought. Or maybe I am thinking of the beaver in Prince   
   >> Caspian? Or was it the bear? :-)   
   >   
   > I believe it was a badger.  A web search turns up this quote:   
   >   
   > "I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change.   
   > We hold on...and we beasts remember..."   
   >   
      
   In addition to which, at least some of the peoples of Narnia have lifespans   
   long enough to personally remember a time before the White Witch made it   
   forever winter, if not actually to a time before her rule.  Tumnus says   
   it's been Winter for over 100 years, and he was there before that.   
   --   
   derek   
      
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