On 15 Apr 2017 at 13:05, Andrew Long wrote:

> - he´s able to see the fluctuating paths of the future as people are
> influenced in one way or another. In the context of `mentors´
> though, a passage from (I think) `First Lensman´ came to mind. All
> the patrol officers who have been sent to Arisia come back with their
> lenses, and are discussing the different appearances of their contact
> `Mentor of Arisia´. One of them (don´t have the books to hand
> any more, so I can´t remember which it was...) recalls that, before
> he had gone to Arisia, he had had cause to look up the word
> `mentor´ - and all the others aid that they had also had such
> cause.

Here's the passage (it's the end of chapter 3):

     "Mentor!" the three men exclaimed.
     Each of them had dealt with Mentor!
     "I am beginning to see," Jill said, thoughtfully. "Mentor. Not a
real name at all. To quote the Unabridged verbatim -- had occasion to
look the word up the other day and I am appalled now at the certainty
that there was a connection quote; Mentor, a wise and faithful
counselor; unquote. Have any of you boys anything to say? I haven't;
and I am beginning to be scared blue."
     Silence fell; and the more they thought, those three young
Lensmen and the girl who was one of the two human women ever to
encounter knowingly an Arisian mind, the deeper that silence became.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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