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pandaaka
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:58 pm
Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 8 Location: UnLondon
Hi all, first post.

Firstly; Steven, if you see this, really enjoying the book so far, only 80 or so pages in, so plenty more to look forward to!

I decided to see if I could find some reason for the Ludovician having the name that it does. A google search gives as it's first result a wikipedia entry on 'cyclic history', "a theory which dictates that the major forces that motivate human actions return in a cycle." I thought this kind of made sense, with the actions of the Second(?) Eric Sanderson being influenced by the letters from the First, and the Ludovician picking up on this. Anybody else got any thoughts on this?

Weirdly, there is no reference to 'ludovician' on the wikipedia entry, and a search for 'ludovician' within wikipedia only returns a link to the page on Steven Hall, not to the Cylic History page. Strange...

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LeaBee
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:50 pm
Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 3 Location: In a basement
I've found a guy called Philippe de la Hire who published a thing called the Ludovician Tables in 1702, and it also seems to be a term used to describe a type of statescraft? I can't seem to get any further than that though! Will have to weed out all the references to RST before I get anywhere!!

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pandaaka
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:18 pm
Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 8 Location: UnLondon
Good spot LeaBee! The de la Hire thing looks interesting. Looks like the Ludovician Tables may have been a log of the motions of the sun, moon, and planets, something that Eric considers himself early on, at the beginning of chapter 3.

Or could the Ludovician be named after Ludovic Zamenhof, who invented Esperanto, and apparently was a great word-lover. Sounds believable to me, considering it's nature (or what I know of it so far). To tie into the above, Zamenhof has a minor planet named after him. Tenuous I know ...
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SteveB
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:52 pm
Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 3
I noticed that Ludovician contains the words Ian & Clio (as an anagram). That leaves VDU!?!

Am I seeing things that aren't there?
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Davinche
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:36 am
Joined: 06 Apr 2007 Posts: 10
Ordovician (Emphasis on the marine fauna.) + Ludovico Technique (Thank you Hello?) = Ludovician.
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benedict
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:13 pm
Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 65
also, there is this.
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amylola
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 3:49 am
Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 4 Location: los angeles
Davinche wrote:
Ordovician (Emphasis on the marine fauna.) + Ludovico Technique (Thank you Hello?) = Ludovician.


just finished watching Clockwork Orange with my class, and discovered the Ludovico technique is the torture technique used to turn the violent kid into a non-violent kid. perhaps this has already been discussed elsewhere on the forum, although a search brought up only this one post.
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