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I’m in, also rolled a 2.
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This is exactly where I am in the series.
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(Quote) My introduction to the chiasmus was through ancient Hebrew poetry. (Quote) That makes complete sense.
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That prompts the question of whether all waves refract at the precise angle that makes for the fastest route. I’m a ham radio operator and know a little bit of practical wave theory, but Fermat is not something that makes any difference in that cont…
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I think structure matters on several ways. On the one hand, if we are not trained, by the academy or by culture, to recognize chiasmus, we are apt to miss something rhetorically intended for us. On the other hand, sometimes authors are not consciou…
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I saw the film when it first came out, and even with a few years’ distance it overwhelmed my sense of discovery of the story as a story. What the story did was to prompt me to think a lot about phenomenology - phenomenology of language, of time, o…
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I’m fine with that.
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For my part, this isn’t a problem. I read from a variety of formats, digital and print.
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Geeky is good.
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3 pts - C: Dangerous Visions / Again Dangerous Visions 2 pts - B: The Islanders / Dream Archipelago / The Evidence 1 pt - A: Dune (+ Dune Messiah, sounds like) I changed my order a bit based on others’ comments.
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(Quote) Traveller was my entrée into role playing. Who doesn’t live a game where your character can die before the end of character creation?
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I’m in for any of the choices, but here is my Ranked-Choice Ballot: 2 & 7 sound amazing. 9 I’ve been trying to read since The Great Eastern. 1 & 6 I read as a teenager and multiple times since. 4, 5, & 8 sound good. 3 I would be willi…
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I’m ready.
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I have never been to a con, so I won’t weigh in on that. I do play in several pbf games at the moment, and I’m running one. I’ve also run games at my home with friends. My friends and I have had conversations about the racism behind D&D racial …
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Here’s the unrolled thread, but it doesn’t get any of the interaction between Jemisin and Twitter commenters. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1105950917537513472.html
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Sounds like we don’t have anyone against it, so why don’t we make history by doing the same book twice?
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My first book was #25, Day of the Triffids.
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I don’t know why I didn’t think of this. I’ll be sure to consult this list in the future. I’m up for another pick if folks don’t want to do it twice. By the way, are we up to 95 or up to 96? Even though the short story and movie for December didn’…
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(Quote) Yes, that’s the one.
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(Quote) I assumed Piranesi was a woman for a long time. I don’t know why, maybe stereotypes about innocence?
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I haven’t read anything else by her, and, since we were reading the character’s journal, I thought the capitalization was his. I didn’t know she did this in other writings.
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I'm a first responder! Can I get the vaccine first?
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Yes, I've touched on this in some of my answers to the other questions. I think it invites us to examine the narratives we tell ourselves about who we are and what our place in the world is. (I was reminded of the movie Memento.)
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Yes, the protagonist did appeal to me. The sections where he struggles with the suspicion that his "friend" might not be telling him the truth were poignant for me. And when he himself decides to dissemble is a pretty potent description of…
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While Piranesi was alone, he didn't seem to get lonely, since he had forgotten that other people exist. I, on the other hand, am quite lonely, even though I interact with people virtually quite often.
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No, to me this book was a layer of textures. These textures stood out to me more than any specific bit of symbolism. I'm not deprecating the specificity, and I picked up on a lot of it, but even more prominent to me was the gauzy sense of reality an…
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I think the larger hazard here is the psychological one. Persons who stay in this small world go mad (or learn to become themselves, however you might want to frame it). It might be interesting to me to run a one-character game (not one-player) tha…
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Yes, I loved the unfolding. The first chapters let us know that the protagonist's consciousness was pretty narrow and was revealing to the reader very little about anything anything about the larger world because the character didn't know there even…
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Apparently I like to repeat things other people have already said. On another note, we’re going to start discussing the book this weekend.