"'How blows your wind?' Tabitha asked, puffing hard on her pipe."
-Poul Anderson, The People Of The Wind IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2011), pp. 437-662 AT VI, p. 506.
Hloch writes that the Discovery, first contact with humanity, gale-seized those Ythrians who saw what it meant, that what the compilers of the Earth Book were able to find was mostly chance-blown and that Terra must hold records a cloud-height higher. He ends the Earth Book with:
"Fair winds forever." (p. 434)
A full gathering of such Planha phrases would be cloud-high.
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Kaor, Paul!
And academics and savants of many races would probably be glad to spend a lifetime exploring those records and archives on Terra! And some probably did.
Ad astra! Sean
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