Timeline for What was the price Jadis paid to learn the deplorable word, and who taught her the word?
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| Oct 12, 2023 at 8:34 | comment | added | James McLeod | @Pryftan I am pretty sure that Belgium appeared in the original radio series as the most obscene word in the universe. | |
| Jul 3, 2023 at 19:51 | comment | added | Pryftan | @Wallnut Fun. Though that word was an American censorship. It's more obscene in the UK edition. | |
| Nov 17, 2021 at 10:30 | comment | added | Wallnut | I expect that Zaphod Beeblebrox would say that the Deplorable Word was "Belgium". | |
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| May 18, 2017 at 21:39 | comment | added | Mwr247 | @Reya The same reason we still have nuclear weapons but don't use them, and even if we did disarm, we wouldn't remove our ability to produce them again. Knowledge is power, even if that power isn't actively used, and apparently it worked well for a long time until Jadis came around. | |
| May 18, 2017 at 21:14 | comment | added | Molag Bal | @Reya Maybe it was something indestructible. The magic behind the Deplorable Word could have been part of the foundation of the world, unable to be destroyed or truly lost, only avoided. Not unlike nuclear bombs: the technology can always be rediscovered, even if all contemporary records of them are destroyed. | |
| May 18, 2017 at 10:44 | comment | added | Reya | Okay so, if it was something written down and locked away, why hadn't anyone destroyed it? If it wasn't knowledge passed from a living person, it would've been prudent for rulers to get rid of it. | |
| May 16, 2017 at 17:40 | comment | added | Quasi_Stomach | @Mwr247 How ominous... | |
| May 16, 2017 at 17:39 | comment | added | Mwr247 | @Quasi_Stomach That's worthy of it's own question. The short answer is that while probably yes (at least in part), neither C.S. Lewis or Aslan verify it. As a whole however, it likely referenced humanity's growing knowledge and power in general, allowing for even yet unknown technologies of ever greater destructive capabilities to fall under Aslan's warning. | |
| May 16, 2017 at 17:31 | comment | added | Quasi_Stomach | Was Aslan talking about nuclear proliferation? | |
| May 16, 2017 at 17:16 | history | edited | Mwr247 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 16, 2017 at 17:08 | comment | added | Mwr247 | @MolagBal Entirely possible. Or time travel. Or a experimentation with magic/science. But these are all just speculation, and the reality is that we don't know for certain. At the very least we know the location was important, while what "price" had to be paid is completely unknown. I'll edit the answer to clarify "living person" though. | |
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| May 16, 2017 at 17:03 | comment | added | Molag Bal | Unless she engaged in neromancy, bringing someone back who could teach her the word. | |
| May 16, 2017 at 16:58 | history | answered | Mwr247 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |