"The mortal plain"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 3:48 AM, Jim Parish wrote:

> The following appeared in a review, by James Lileks, of the new "3:10
> to Yuma":
>
> "It’s so preposterous that you cannot accept the movie as a
> depiction of
> a sequence of events that occur on the ordinary mortal plain"
>
> Lileks might be playing with the fact that he's talking about a
> Western,
> but I find 3750 Googits for "mortal plain". (A lot of them seem to be
> associated with D&D-type games, where multiple planes are a standard
> feature.)

plain/plane is common enough to have its own entry in Brians.

arnold

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