This wasn't my interpretation at all. What I found interesting is that no one had any concept of a dragon. Lews Therin was called the dragon, but no one knew why. His symbol was something that we would recognize as a dragon, but no one knew what it was supposed to be a symbol of. Seanchan...
I'm in the middle of my first full reread (book 8). I can be a little dense at times, and it just now occurred to me that apart from the word 'Dragon', there seems to be nothing at all in the shared culture of Randland about dragons. People recognize the symbol for the Dragon, but don't...
Ah, working your way through school at movie theatres. I remember it well. I worked for National Theatres, which became Regal, and for a little twin, which used to be an old Vaudeville house.
The attempt would not be lost on Carroll. He was primarily a mathematician, wrote a textbook on logic, and made many logic jokes in the Alice books. The nonsense in Alice is very systematic, logical, and full of significance. If you're interested in how full of thought those two books are...
I know I'm a little late to this party, but here's something that hasn't come through clearly. Time as we experience it has two distinct features. These two features are being run together above, driving at least some of the objections to the theory, and then they're not clearly distinguished...
Thanks for all the welcomes. I'd rather be boiled in acid than go to karaoke, but I'd gladly have a beer with y'all.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that my favorite literary device is hyperbole.
But seriously, no karaoke; it's strictly trivia night for me.
I am Eluial's husband. She tells me I should introduce myself. Not that I do everything she says, but she keeps saying it.
I'm not generally one to speak before spoken to, but as Alice points out, if everyone followed that rule, it would be fairly quiet. I tried to prove this in formal...