You know you're a Chronicles of Lymond fan when every time a book about the ( Read more... )

and bits, mostly me and 
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hello writers out there... in the interests of discussion, answer me ( Read more... )

This will really be relevent only to
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I have no idea why this is still eating up my brain cells. Might be an indication that I need a life.

so... thanks to
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Continued from the previous entry.

Justice in (an ideal) democracy presupposes a common moral scheme, a system of checks and balances understood by all, so that when a member of society breeches the limits of the system there are predetermined consequences.  Consequences which are agreed upon by the society, consequences linked to the severity of ( Read more... )

Somehow I always think of a title for these things before I have an actual essay.

"So Speaks the Hero : personal responsibility, judgment and vigilantism in The Modern Prometheus"

... sounds all ridiculously academic and pretentious.  At least there are no parentheses.  What can I say, I like titling things.

My rambling thoughts, from my notebook: [ ( Read more... )

while thinking about the necessity and pitfalls of vigilantism in the ( Read more... )

ideas for the canon post...

Original list posted 2/25/06. Ideas from comments added 2/26/06. Thank you thank you everyone for lovely suggestions1. where is the line between straight canon and interpretation, or theorizing. Are there degrees of "canonness ( Read more... )

Wow. Invigorating to have such a discussion. Original discussion here, offshoots here and here.

I went off on a canon tangent, I think, and maybe I needed to loosen up a bit. Don't know exactly why my panties got in a twist, I should have let the debate die about two days ago. As a relative newbie to fandom discussions, perhaps I can be forgiven my ( Read more... )