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Ray_Otus
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- Old School Essentials, Troika, Dungeon World
- Books I like
- The Hobbit, Dune, Roadside Picnic, All Creatures Great and Small, Nero Wolfe...
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Ch. 1. * "A lift of his thin, freckled arm indicated the thousands of paces of wall stretching across the slum and sweeping up the hill until at last they met the high curtain wall of the Citadel. It was a walk I would take, much later." …
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(Quote) Truth! Any way we can justify reading him in this club? LOL
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Should we make anything of the fact that the Kargad empire is a bunch of cruel, white bullies, while Ged's people are brown-skinned seafarers and goat herders who venerate nature to some extent? I mean, I'm half-joking, but I do think LeGuin intenti…
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If you are frustrated with me because it seems like I just argued both sides of this, I don't blame you. I need to ruminate more on this. :smile: Time to actually re-read it.
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Yeah. It's a confusing issue to talk about a little bit. Because there is a religious side to it - the order, the trappings, the impact on the culture. Then there is the supernatural powers side of it. But I 100% agree with you that the focus is on …
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As it is for most people, @Michael_S_Miller. I have yet to read an AP that was in love with the Torchbearer experience (at least one that wasn't put out by someone who had a hand in the game's creation).
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Hmmm. I may be talking in circles. But if could say "God exists" and we all accept that statement, then religion becomes a different thing - more along the lines of obedience to the law than faith in a higher power. Tenar is a slave. Her f…
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(* at least using it the way people have used it in this thread.)
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@RichardAbbott Those are good thoughts but the point I was trying to make is this: Talking about this in terms of religion may not really be a "good reading" at all, in the sense that we are applying Earth notions of religion to Earthsea …
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(Quote) It's a good idea to at least announce the start of discussions in a common thread we all agree to watch.
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Ged actively fights an old power, the stone of Terenon, in book 1. Here they sap his strength don't they?* Or is his magic just weak because of being so far from his homeland (where he knows the names of things better)? In any case, there are people…
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LeGuin is a badass. Her language always gets under my skin. In this case, I remember (and keep in mind I grew up in the Bible Belt in a VERY religious old school Bible-thumping protestant home) that this book both enthralled me and creeped me the he…
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Maybe Ron Edwards' S/lay w/Me would be a good fit. (HORRIBLE name for a game, but an interesting concept.) As I recall the game focuses on three forces – arrayed in a kind of lovers' triangle (though not necessarily sexual in nature). I agree that i…
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I suppose it's interesting that Ged ran TOWARD his destiny (being a wizard) and Tenar runs away from hers. Also Ged hungers for power (and is taught a lesson about that). Tenar has power and sheds it. I dunno. I'm just spitballin' here.
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Does it matter that the gods here are provably real? I feel like OUR ideas about religion are somewhat grounded in the concept that whether God exists or not is unprovable. Thus it requires faith for us to believe in a higher being. In this case we…
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Keep in mind there's a cultural rift here as well as an age rift and a gender rift. The "courtship" as it were is the two of them struggling to bondy. Tenar desperately needs Ged and vice versa, but it's hard for them to understand each ot…
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The Fellowship of the Read. :)
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Ok. Cool. Thanks. LOL. I just answered your email too. You can ignore that.
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Oh, sorry @Michael_S_Miller. Those are from a book on the art of The Hobbit. I'll try to hunt down the page and scan it for you. Any interest in this drawing? One of my own. "Sam and Frodo Enter Mordor." (Image)
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Sorry @Michael_S_Miller pages 57 and 58 of what? Are you referring to that drawing I made that I was going to put on the cover. I can send you that.
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Now for the schedule. Can we do it on a Google Calendar like last time?
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(Quote) Wait? Did I type this while drunk? I don't remember writing it. But what the hell... Goddamn! Bill White!!!
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Goddamn! Bill White!!!
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Uhhhhhh. :)
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YEah, this new forum -- not so easy to navigate. I had to click on your name and then your discussions to find it.
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Oooh. I'm totally down for any of these. 3: New Sun 2: Dune 1: Moby
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Where? @dr_mitch?
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It's sort of like playing with a doll house. Except that the doll house is a dungeon or wilderness or space station or old New England church with terrible things in the basement. And there is no physical toys: house or dolls. And instead of just de…
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@Evlyn - wild. I JUST mentioned you on my podcast (talking about the Atlantis art you did for me that I have in my hip pocket for a future zine). Good to see you here and I hope things are going well for you in the frozen north.
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Lots to look forward to. I thought I hadn't read any Harold Lamb, but the other day I remembered I had read Hannibal. (Image)