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I will push it off a bit then, and post the questions mid-week. That will give you a few days to catch up. It's not a long book.
You mean this isn't a book about Quaker Eskimos and all the words they have for snow?
Inuit! Society of Friends Inuit! This is 2020, Ray!
My bad!
But yeah - the more words you have for snow, the more important snow is to your standard Society of Friends Inuit. Just like the larger the percentage of game rules that are about combat, the more central combat is in an RPG. It's like cut and dried!
And where's the guy in all-over black?
My guess is furry hood to match his furry windbreaker.
Must've blacked-out...
Questions are up!
First one to answer rather than the last. Booyah!
Playing against type, Wild Card?
I'm about a third of the way through next month's selection, too.
Maybe you should introduce it!
Not a chance. That will be right around finals grading season.
Not quite that far but a decent way in - have to admit I am loving this one, great choice
I will confess here that The Languages of Pao selection was a total mistake. I had meant to choose the classic Vance novel Emphyrio instead, but when I was typing it up I had a brain fart and typed The Languages of Pao instead. I have no idea why - perhaps it was in my mind for some other reason. It wasn't until people started posting that they had bought the book that I realized my screw up, and it was too late. TLoP is a strange novel with a very ambitious premise which Vance fails to explore properly, but I had to go with it at that point.
> I will confess here that The Languages of Pao selection was a total mistake...
I doubt it very much, It's hard to have a good discussion when there is no dissent.
Oops! Mistakes happen. At least it's not as bad as when Queen Victoria asked Lewis Carroll for his next book...
(Which apparently didn't happen.)
> Oops! Mistakes happen. At least it's not as bad as when Queen Victoria asked Lewis Carroll for his next book...
>
> (Which apparently didn't happen.)
What a charming story (which I'd never come across before). Seeing mention of Martin Gardner's Annotated Alice, if anyone perchance hasn't read this, I'd recommend it as a piece of nerdy and whimsical fun (together with the companion Annotated Snark, though personally I prefer Alice)