In general, if strange and arbitrary things happen without much discription or explanaition, it gives a fantastic feel.
When you have a name or explanation for something, it becomes something you can accept and deal with, but as long as you don't, it remains outside of your normal, and...
It could be what I am watching, but The Simpsons and Futurama hinge on Homer's and Fry's respective stupidity. The early Discworld books hinge on Rincewind's stupidity and cowardice. I don't know of any female character who possesses such stupidity.
I may be wrong, and I may be disgusting for asking this question, but I just saw the Futurama episode where Fry (the show's main male character, possibly main character and definitely the show's idiot) becomes female.
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I thought to myself "obviously Fry must be...
Such a small breast and narrow ribs on your flying horse? Many WWII aircraft used low velocity rockets, ( a good bit faster than a bow, but they and their targets would be moving at at least 300mph ) and they were fired forward. The Wefer-Granate anti bomber rocket fired forward and up to...
Left hand of Darkness is great, the only thing is i didn't realize the MC was male until the end and I'm still not sure if LeGuin did ot on purpose or not ?:/
Just finished Shepherd's Crown. It's hard to believe that's the end of Discworld. Terry Pratchett has come a long way from Color of...
A '65 'stang in '36? The reactions it would cause..... That's a book in itself!
Artists and writers play fast and free with this stuff. Makes me mad. When someone paints a train with accurate perspective and light and all that and then the coupling rod (thing that connects the driving wheels...
All this stuff about names... There was a guy I went to highschool with who called himself Fat Cats, another who called himself Ducky, another was Korah, as in the rebel from the Bible, I was 'Einstein', or 'Giggidy' (A Family Guy reference I did not get).... People do use such names.
You are right. I made some incorrect assumptions by overextending my knowledge. I am just a math student, not an engineer or biologist, and the only reason I know anything about this topic is because I am a wannabe polymath. I would like to ask you some questions, but that is neither the point...
I greatly enjoyed the article. I have always thought of law as something that came out of a book, but these two categories make sense. How would they work in a small trial, say in a frontier town, where there ae no lawbooks? Someone would claim they are right because the are 'natural'?
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What is the level of industrialization? When people found sperm whales, they saw 85ft raging monsters, who are social and sometimes will come to each others' aid, and thought "oil!". Moby Dick, (not real, but based on a single real incident with a very angry whale) could wreck a ship, but a...
Great article, and I think it is a concept dealt with throughout the ages.
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The goal is not to be original, but to build upon what came before you rather than repeat it.
Read Gaiman's Neverwhere, and see how he introduces Serpentine. There is definitely both something sexual and something not quite right between her and Hunter....