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I was tagged by glitterburn (cause I wanted to) to elaborate on the following:
Gundam WingIn the end of the 1970s, NASA scientists came up with a design of space colonies that could be located at the Lagrange points of the Earth-Moon system. The colonization program (that was presented before Congress btw) was meant to solve energy crisis on Earth, and they ( Read more... )
Gundam WingIn the end of the 1970s, NASA scientists came up with a design of space colonies that could be located at the Lagrange points of the Earth-Moon system. The colonization program (that was presented before Congress btw) was meant to solve energy crisis on Earth, and they ( Read more... )
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That's what the Congress said. :D "And how much money you want for that? How much? Excuse me? Thanks for you time, gentlemen. That was fascinating."
I went 'huh' on English/Ireland thing too. The story feels Austro-Hungarian to me, so I tune E/I out.
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1) Lots of your stories are set in China. How did you get there?
2) Ideal town to live in.
3) Greece
4) Knights Templar (I used to be obsessed with J de M when I was a kid)
5) Sequel to Scent ;)
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Lots of your stories are set in China. How did you get there?
When I was 19, I watched a film called Zu: Warriors From The Magic Mountain, directed by Tsui Hark. My bf of the time fancied Brigitte Lin, who was the main actress in the film. I was watching it because I had nothing better to do, and then suddenly this incredible man appeared on screen and I was smitten. He was Adam Cheng, and I still love him now XD I retained a fondness for HK films long after I dumped my bf, and my brother and I shared a taste for action movies featuring Chow Yun Fat and Jackie Chan ( ... )
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I prefer the Hospitallers to the Templars for the reason that I went to Malta at an impressionable age and fell in love with Valletta. My interest in the Templars came about because of their rivalry with the Hospitallers, and also because I admire their architectural style. When I lived in Edinburgh, one of my favourite places to go was Rosslyn Chapel (immortalised, unfortunately, by The Da Vinci Code), which is really a staggering thing of beauty but also very peculiar. There are few a Templar churches left in the UK - London (again thank you for ruining it, Dan Brown) and Cambridge are my favourites. The Cambridge church especially has such serenity to it.
The Holy Grail stuff is intriguing and certainly makes for entertaining reading, but I’m sure the truth was much more boring. That didn’t stop me from writing about a Templar becoming a Janissary in order to retrieve the Ark of the Covenant from the Ottomans XD
You liked Jacques de Molay, I liked Hugh de Payens XD
Sequel to ScentUh, pass ( ... )
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2) I'd swap my Korean village for a town like that any time. :) But seriously I nether thought of Edinburgh as a place that stands out.
3) That explains why the archeological bits in FoM are so natural and to the point.
4) From the first GM to the last. All covered. (We can't even ship them! XDD)
But Templar becoming a Janissary? What a... dedication.
5) I hope thing will turn for the better, total burn-out never feels good... *hugs*
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Edinburgh seems to polarise people. I took an American friend there once and she absolutely loathed it! It did go rapidly downhill over the last ten years as all the shops moved out of the city and Princes Street became a bit of a wasteland. I've been back a few times to take friends and it's not been the same, unfortunately.
Hugh de Payens/Jacques de Molay in the afterlife OTP!!!1!!
And if you get fed up with the Chinese stories and want to read about archaeology in the Greek islands and a vengeful Greek vampire, let me know.
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