i don't understand the lead book. what was it used for? did it sit in the rock all the time, or could you take the pages out, and did you have to take them out one by one or were they somehow bound?
They mostly just sat in the rock until you needed them. They were not bound in any way; they just sat in a depression in the rock in the correct order.
As to why someone would create such a thing when they had perfectly good parchment, I have no idea.
Yay, caves and tunnels! And I'm glad you've been at least getting by with understanding what people are saying--I doubt I would have had any luck with that even if I were trying it right after my last year of Spanish (junior year of high school). "Mas despacio, por favor!" would be the only thing I would ever say.
On a completely different topic, having finished reading The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife, I've discovered that there are an astonishingly large number of parallels between the His Dark Materials trilogy and Babylon 5. The angels on the side of human improvement and evolution are even sometimes referred to as Shadows, ferchrissake. I'll probably post about this on my sadly-neglected fanfic blog sometime soon.
hello, friend of sylvia. do you read comics/graphic novels? have you ever read planetary by warren ellis? do you feel it, too, resonates with pullman's triology? i dearly want to meet someone who has read both these works and can tell me if they noticed any similarity or if i need to get my eyes checked.
Nice to "meet" you. Sorry, basically the only comics/graphic novels I've read so far are Joss-Whedon-related. I'll get around to Sandman and manga eventually, and I'll take a look at Planetary since you (implicitly) recommend it, but there are a lot of regular-style novels higher on my list.
oh, bummer. well, thank you anyway for responding. planetary's not my favorite warren ellis work (that would be transmetropolitan, which is foul-mouthed and drugged-out and fucked-up and righteous), but it's pretty good. by the time i was reading the third pullman book and they were discovering the architecture of the universe and stuff, i felt the two serieseses had some sort of thematic commonality. i should probably reread both to make sure, though.
also, sylvia: http://www.riseup.net/ , and the stuff at the bottom. i especially like that there's a group called the emma goldman finishing school, but that's not the point.
Comments 11
Reply
As to why someone would create such a thing when they had perfectly good parchment, I have no idea.
Reply
On a completely different topic, having finished reading The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife, I've discovered that there are an astonishingly large number of parallels between the His Dark Materials trilogy and Babylon 5. The angels on the side of human improvement and evolution are even sometimes referred to as Shadows, ferchrissake. I'll probably post about this on my sadly-neglected fanfic blog sometime soon.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
The lead book sounds interesting...any idea as to the purpose?
Any news on the plans for Morocco? Interesting happenings during the side-trip to Madrid?
Otherwise, yeah, seems like a number of older European cities have those both-ways hills :p As for the turbospanish, did you expect anything less ?
Looking forwards to the pictures, too.
Reply
Leave a comment