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Subject: The cortana letters...
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For those of you who havent seen these cortana letters HERE they are.

Now on to my point...

Most of you probably already know about these letters but again this is for those of you who don't... maybe people who have will find my thoughts interesting too, I don't know.

These "letters" (emails) were sent back in 1999 before even Halo:Combat Evolved even came out and at first people thought that they had to do with the sword in Marathon called Cortana. However, we now know that it is about the halo series... What could these letters mean?

If you read the first letter you might notice that it is not too much unlike the trailer especially when she says,

"Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends."

When she refers to "your poet Eliot" She is talking about T.S. Eliot who wrote the poem, "The Hollow Men" In his poem he says,

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Have you heard it before? Of course you have... coincedence???

In some of her other messages she sounds pretty strange and unfriendly... what's this? This is not the cortana I'm used to... Could this be a fortelling of a betrayal?? She says some pretty strange things throughout the course of these letters but she IS interrupted a few times by this message,

You have brought nothing into this world, and we will ensure you bring nothing out.

and

Our conviction is like an arrow already in flight. Your life will only last until it reaches you.

These are (or at least I think so) covenant interruptions in the message... But that's up for debate...

When Cortana says,

"While you quibble about whose node I may control, what archaic program I may manipulate to communicate with you, or which system I may have temporarily disabled, taken over, or completely destroyed in the process, I am busy saving your pathetic futures. I am still not sure what he ever saw in you."

It kind of gives me the sense that she is in this fight for her own purposes and that you may have no idea what she is planning to do... Basically the whole third letter goes on like this... Again, these letters were written (typed) before Halo: combat evolved even came out... If you are interested I reccomend that you check out those letters... remember, this is only MY opinon with help from various sources... Again you can find those letters HERE . Thanks! I hope you guys enjoy this! Hopefully some ppl learned something new...


  • 06.09.2006 3:53 PM PDT
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  • 06.09.2006 6:25 PM PDT
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hmmmm interesting, very interesting.

  • 06.09.2006 6:36 PM PDT
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Don't bump, these letters are old, we get it.

  • 06.09.2006 6:36 PM PDT