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(Quote) Oh wow, this is beautiful. It reminds me of wu wei, which in Taoism represents unmoving movement, active non-action, the space where inactive yin becomes active yang and vice versa.
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(Quote) A Spirograph design that is split and shifted slightly, like some of the book’s illustrations, created the Hinge. What is the book’s Hinge? Structurally? Thematically?
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I understood @NeilNjae from the context of the rest of his comment, but I know the metaphor of which @clash_bowley speaks with no context. I would have used the phrase “laying the foundation” to mean the same as what @NeilNjae said.
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Alright! This is already more enthusiasm than we had for Red Mars. Let’s do Gods of Jade and Shadow. Final answer. :)
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(Quote) I’m good with Red Mars, but it looks like I’ll be the only one reading it for the first time. I could easily go with something more recent, making it more likely that more of us can read for the first time, and something shorter. I guess w…
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(Quote) I downloaded the Ironsworn materials from this link today, read through the game book and created Nadira, a Spirit-Bound Lightbearer with an owl companion. Nadira is smart, knowledgeable, and resourceful. Background Vow: Avenge the death of…
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I’m a bit behind, not an unusual occurrence lately, but which will hopefully be remedied now that classes are over for the summer. Like @dr_mitch , I wonder whether Kindle is the best way to read this. At first I liked being able to click on a note…
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Regarding Schaffa, he does seem to be resisting the “she” that is talking to him internally,,whom he was presumably obeying in the past. I don’t know if his ethics have really changed, but I do think his aim has changed. In last week’s reading, @A…
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(Quote) I had not yet read this chapter when I posted about pre-critical, critical, and post-critical approaches to a text. I see here Essun expressing a critical view of the legends about a living Earth, thinking that surely the Earth is simply sto…
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Regarding the science of this book, it bounced me into critical mode again by saying the stars are all wrong on the other side of the world. The stars are all wrong on the other side of the equator, which one can experience by traveling along this w…
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(Quote) I happened to run across this while searching for a list of all the books read by the group, so I guess I don’t have notifications turned on for everything. I’ve read several of Armstrong’s books and heard her speak as one of the keynotes a…
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I’m not set on Red Mars. I thought about it because I got the game Terraforming Mars for Christmas, and now that the spring semester is over I’ll have some time to play (and more time to read). It sounds like there are a couple problems with using …
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What does everyone thing of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars for the June selection? It has hard science fiction, social science fiction, and it will let me think about political philosophy as they argue about how to govern. The paperback I’m lookin…
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I haven’t yet read the next chapters. It will probably be the weekend before I have the chance.
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I was jolted by the phrase “satellite Fulcrum” in the Antarctics, since such a big deal was made earlier that Essun didn’t know the word. Then in the same paragraph, Nassun overhears Jija asking if someone has heard of the Moon. My favorite hermene…
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I’m in, too. I just bought the US Kindle version. I had $2.50 in promotional credit, so it only cost me $14.49. Woot! I’ll hurry up and be ready for the first discussion.
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(Quote) It seems that Essun is even worse than Schaffa. At least there was always the possibility of “advancement” with the Guardians and the Fulcrum, in the sense of gaining rank, privilege, and praise (of a sort). I was startled when the narrator …
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Thanks, everyone.
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(Quote) I’ve only read the first two, but I will definitely read the rest of them.
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I was just depressed and didn’t realize how long I had been away. June works for me.
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(Quote) I am so sorry to have dropped the ball on this.
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Or the narrator is talking to an obelisk that has assimilated Essun. Or the narrator is talking to Essun whose identity has become fragmented due to exposure to an obelisk.
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(Quote) My hesitation with this is that the narrator tells the listener, “Yes.. You are him, too...” (beginning of Ch. 3). And then tells about Schaffa’s near-death. Is the listener an entity that encompasses these identities, even Schaffa’s? Or i…
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(Quote) Heck yeah! I sometimes have students write and act out scenes from Mesopotamian creation myths.
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I revise my wondering to: I wonder if the moon is in geosynchronous orbit on the other side of the earth, which is causing all this plate tectonics instability. I may have mentioned this early on, but maybe not. A retired History prof at my school,…
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(Quote) Thank you for that reminder.
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I wonder if Alabaster wants to pull the moon into the earth.
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(Quote) I am credentialed to teach philosophy (you all may have figured that out) and religion (critical academic approaches, not doctrinal stuff). My area in grad school was hermeneutics, and my field was phenomenology. My expertise is in German a…
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(Quote) Ooh, I’ll have to take a look at that. I use role playing games in some of my classes. I see on RPG Geek that it took a couple of runner-up spots in the Indie RPG Awards.
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(Quote) That’s an interesting connection. Du Bois wrote in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. I would assume he was familiar with Marx. I don’t recall him making the association, but I’m certainly not a Du Bois scholar, and it’s been a few years si…