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clash_bowley
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So far, @NeilNjae is making all my comments for me. :smile:
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(Quote) Yes, this was pretty obvious. (Quote) Didn't think about that, but on reflection, I agree.
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You mean "trained" deer... The animal education system in this nation is pathetic! Not like Europe at all!
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I haven't gotten my book yet, Richard! Ordered it weeks ago.
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(Quote) Certainly not the financial sense. Nobody actually makes real money writing it! :wink:
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(Quote) YES! EXACTLY! Not that he lost track of time, but that he had NO MEMORY of anything happening! My impression also! And Severian says he has perfect memory...
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He is playing games with time. There are gaps in his narrative, especially in the Botanical gardens, and they are deliberate. Amusing himself at our expense... I am positive @RichardAbbott is correct and the Concilliator is Christ. It fits theolog…
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And shouldn't the title of this be "chapters 17-20"? I assumed this was the same as the post from last week originally.
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I thought the Thecla he had relations with was the prostitute 'replica' Thecla. They strapped roller skates on Severian's feet and pushed him down a hill. He still hasn't done anything since Thecla's death.
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It was Apocryphal that turned me onto Innes. He is very good!
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You should check out Hammond Innes, Richard! I recently read his Wreckers Must Breathe, which is a thriller set in the opening days of WWII, and actually published in 1940, and this reminded me of it. He was an experienced yachtsman - he and his act…
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Thank you so much, Michael! <3
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@Ray_Otus - See Tina Fey's Four Rules of Improv at https://kicp-workshops.uchicago.edu/eo2014/pdf/Tina-Feys-rules-of-improv.pdf - Apocryphal is referring to the first rule: "The first rule of improvisation is AGREE. Always agree and SAY YES. W…
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(Quote) I was thinking you established these as 'facts' earlier and THEY were messing up! :D
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@Ray Otus - "The roads were patrolled by Uhlans..." :smile:
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@NeilNjae - The roads are unmaintained, so are in disrepair.
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NeilNjae had it. They got the PC glow!
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Wait! Just noticed! Were we supposed to read 12-18? If so I messed up and only read to 16, thinking we were doing 4 chapters at a time...
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Something appears to be happening! Let's see where this goes!
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"Pursued the peccary with pardine limers" could more probably mean "hunted Javelinas with a pantherish dog", especially given we know they have genetically modified animals.
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Clarke always disappoints character-wise, but never concept-wise. At some point in most Clarke books I have read, my jaw drops and I think "Oh my f*cking GOD that is AWESOME!!!"
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Not really interesting, I think. Just a funny coincidence. :smiley:
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@Apocryphal - I meant that the societies were extremely similar, but where in the game this is done to be a morally better society, in the book nobody seems to care, and it's done because that is the way things are done. In either case they are suff…
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BTW, this society is a dark mirror of the society in my last-designed game. Interesting.
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The client choose to become clients by working against the system. The torturers are not allowed to judge, so they can only carry out the sentences given by those who judge, so they must assume that the clients are indeed working against the system.
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Yes, @Apocryphal - The Peoples of Middle Earth. Coincidentally I am currently re-reading it - the book, I mean. :smiley:
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I designed a SF game where a contragravity/FTL drive was discovered right after WWII, and play runs from the 1950s to the 1980s. Slide rules and mechanical calculators were what you had to use until late in the setting. I like that! It's interesting…
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I agree with Apocryphal. The scenes with the flyer ambassador were the most interesting.
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I love hard SF. The game I am currently designing is very much hard SF. I also love other flavors of SF just as much.
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I can't help but wonder at the combination of Barlinnan and Bree... :o The characters are mostly stock, and might as well be named Pierrot or Scaramouche or Harlequin, with the singular exception of Barlinnan. Barlinnan on the other hand might as w…