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(Quote) I assure you there were! This was the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine, for example.
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In the modern mind, we think in terms of cause and effect, where the non-modern mind thinks in terms of ritual and result. The world is pervasively magical, and invoking that magic is no more wondrous than lighting a fire with sparks. Indeed, lighti…
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I didn't see any hint of a sexual dynamic between the elite and the populace. It was all between the elite and the elite. The elite never interacted with the populace at all, just with each other, and with their servitors, who did interact with the …
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Rational thought was not a thing. Ones reasons were not rational, and ones actions flowed from one's reasons. Again, pre-modern minds. We do not think that way, but they did.
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That all worked fine for me. No problems there!
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With God all things are possible. They are both realistic and MCU, because that distinction would be meaningless.
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I can't judge their actions because their reference points are so very different from mine. They might as well be aliens from Rigel. They do things for reasons they think right and proper.
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I found all the female characters far more interesting than the men.
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Pre-moderns thought differently than we do.
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Not only might makes right, but more importantly right makes might.
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I enjoyed them. There were a lot of strange complications, but these were written by a pre-modern person, with a pre-modern mind. That's why I never run games set before the Renaissance. Pre-modern minds just worked differently.
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You can start - I'm mostly done...
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In the middle of the second. They were longer than I expected, and I was real busy!
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@BarnerCobblewood can bump me in the sequence! I haven't started any prep yet!
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I believe @BarnerCobblewood means this as our read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Antimemtics_Division
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This looks fascinating! I'd love to give it a whirl!
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Finished House on the Borderland last weekend. Forgot to inform folks! Mea culpa!
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Not yet started. Will do so today!
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All set!
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Boughtenated.
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(Quote) :D
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(Quote) I think choosing beavers would have been more interesting...
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@BarnerCobblewood - your posts are helping me to understand this book. Thank you.
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Interesting analysis, @BarnerCobblewood! I agree that nostalgia is deeply important to this book, and I have no particular sense of nostalgia. I don't associate emotions with things and places, so the way the people act in this book seems bizarre to…
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(Quote) No, though Umslopogaas the Zulu, the male main character in Nala the Lily, is an important character in some of the Allan Quartermain books.
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I will be doing H. Rider Haggard's Nada the Lily for my next book.
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There were many things that rubbed me the wrong way about this book. It suffered from far too many tropes of the times for me to enjoy it. I was acutely aware of the 'smurf population distribution' - there were 30 smurfs for every one smurfette. Als…
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(Quote) For emphasis!
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(Quote) It was meant to be chuckled over... (Quote) I also thought of Blish's Cities in Flight
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Nothing here.