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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.
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Welcome. Discussion questions are going up this weekend.
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(Quote) Works for me.
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Okay, thanks. I like to do that myself.
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As with the Ted Chiang selections, I’m not seeing anything at this link.
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I don’t see anything there, not even an empty forum.
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The Biscuit-Box Man, that’s the Pillsbury Doughboy, right?
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Sounds good, I loved the movie and look forward to reading the short story.
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I’m about two-thirds of the way through it and thoroughly enjoying it.
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Not a chance. That will be right around finals grading season.
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The term "fridged" came from critique of a comic in which a superhero's girlfriend was killed and put into a refrigerator. The girlfriend's only purpose in the story was as a catalyst for the development of the male superhero.
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I'm about a third of the way through next month's selection, too.
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A linguimancer.
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First one to answer rather than the last. Booyah!
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Yes, even though I find the settings to be paper-thin, how many times do we see such settings in gaming? Here is the warrior culture. Here is the trading culture. Here is the farming culture. They are stereotypes in gaming for a reason; they work. T…
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Finsterle is Palafox before Palafox became "emeritus," the epitome of the geist of Breakness. He acts or declines to act out of cold calculation about what can benefit him and no one else.
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To use a term from a feminist critique of comics, she was fridged. She existed solely within the narrative to serve Beran's development, much like she existed solely within the fiction to meet men's needs. I think this makes me think even more poorl…
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I think they were set up as the opposite of the conformist, collectivist Paonese. (So maybe there was a bit of macro-semiotics going on here and maybe even a bit of a dialectic. I'll have to think about that some more.)
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I think there is a lot to explore here, and Vance seemed to have a vague sense of how to do that. Very early Paonese is described as very passive and a few demonstrations are provided. I would have been very interested in seeing the new languages de…
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All the cultures were one-note and two-dimensional. I found it to be incredibly shallow.
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Yes, it is rape, whether in the sense of sexual violation or in the sense of carrying someone away forcefully. Both are happening. Vance seems to be ambivalent. The protagonist avails himself of the draft and seems to do away with it for reasons ot…
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I started reading today.