The Reading Room

12:04 AM

@Randal'Thor I would define a classic as a book that you can read every day for your entire life and still find new things.

BESW

Art of SFF: Galen Dara’s Daring Style | http://www.tor.com/2017/06/14/art-of-sff-galen-daras-daring-style/

Tweeted by sfsignal on June 14, 2017 at 4:15 PM

Jan 31 at 11:44, by BESW

("Classic" is whatever Coke says it is.)

Shokhet

12:33 AM

Why is it 13 hours later, and I'm still the only one who voted up Rand's answer to my question? I think it's a very good answer to the question, explains exactly what I was missing, and backs it up with quotes.

Will probably accept, but will wait a little while first just in case anyone else posts an answer.

BESW

YA Lit List: Queer PoC Protagonists.

Shokhet

Speaking of that question...do I need to write a new meta question for this?

yesterday, by Shokhet

Is character-development included in character-analysis?

yesterday, by Shokhet

There is exactly one question with the development tag. I'm about to ask another that might also need that tag, but I wonder if we should just destroy it, and allow its questions to gather under the character-analysis tag.

BESW

Call for submissions: TROUBLE THE WATERS: Tales from the Deep Blue

BESW

2:34 AM

Don't be dragon your heels. Hop over and pre-order #DailyPaintings by @piperdraws. - http://ForgePublishing.com or li…… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/875139259354804224

Tweeted by ForgePublishing on June 14, 2017 at 11:53 PM

user15026

3:47 AM

@BESW I have had this preordered since the first Kickstarter she did (which failed, there was a second one that worked). I can't wait to get my copy

BESW

Cool.

Ki Khanga available for pre-order.

humn

9:01 AM

... during an interval ...

Did this place just split out mathematics and Mithrandirmatics?

Where am I?

Queen - In The Lap Of the Gods..Revisited (Official Lyric Video)

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Wo wo wo lo lo lo.

@Hamlet , it was a passing comment but if this is the place to align to cosmos, I'd be happy.

Mithrandir

@humn Since I don't do math very well, you can call it that ;P

humn

I saw a chat room devoted to you. Had I started it!

Mithrandir

9:16 AM

:P

humn

Are you the last to know?

Mith's Desk

@Mithrandir's office

??????

Mithrandir

Yep, I created that room.

It's for me to chat with people in ;)

humn

And I just pretended not to go there.

But didn't disguise my intrigue.

And won't disguise my cheer!

Okay? I didn't flag it.

(okay, I rarely flag anything, just an awkward way of shouting approval)

manshu

(hey)

humn

Stranger!

manshu

9:27 AM

I believe we have never met.

But I am wrong.

humn

When Mars attacks, Earth defends. Good thing I've been banished to the hemorrhoids and can avoid that other conflagration.

manshu

I wonder why aliens attack USA first in every movie.

humn

I used to think that's where all the cuties were.

Was I wrong!

Cuties are everywhere!

(I'm one, for now)

manshu

That's very optimistic of you. :D

humn

Slap you!

manshu

9:32 AM

dodges

humn

Once I moved to the land of desirable sweets all the cuties made it here.

Before then, just promo.

Now that I'm not so cute, again, all promo.

manshu

I have never been cute. Nor will ever be. So promo everytime.

humn

The only thing moso than promo is noso. Then neverwas.

Funny conversation with someone whom I'mmoso all the time

Really, I landed on this planet without a word in my pocket, without a fibre of strength to type a keystroke to be seen.

manshu

But I am still so-so in understanding what you moso.

humn

I just just hope you don't become no-no while draining your mo-mo to me-me.

... for those out of the know-know, I endeavr to become manshu ...

manshu

9:41 AM

And that is why I need to upgrade myself regularly from constant humn-to-manshu-transformation attacks

humn

IF you're not careful, scientists will have to come up with yet another way to foregress you!

Give them scientists a break!

manshu

If they are not gonna stop, then why should I.

Mithrandir

Two Steps from Hell - Heart of Courage, Organ

(organ stops!)

which organ? Kidney?

9:46 AM

mmmmmmaaaaaaannnnnnnnsssssshhhhhhhuuuuuuu!

manshu

yyyyyyeeeeeeessssssssssssss?????

humn

That piece is beautiful, Mithrandir. but truncated?

~~MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM~~ mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmanshu!

Mithrandir

It's cut off?

manshu

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (that's how I pronounce your name)

humn

Let me try again, it was the first time.

(The wild outdoor cat loves it and is knocking at the window)

manshu

9:52 AM

aaahhh...new cats for regular neighbor check up?

humn

This time it ended solid, and the cat is marking territory in approval.

Any speculation on how a piece of music relates to a novel?

Beyond beginning - middle - denoument?

manshu

It can relate if there is a movie based on novel having a good music.

For example "Fault in our Stars" - All of the Stars.

humn

That came from Mars! Good one!

manshu

Ed Sheeran - All Of The Stars [Official Video]

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humn

Even a simpleminded question can be braided otherwise.

manshu

9:56 AM

:p

humn

That video plays on interruptions in ways to learn from.

Mithrandir

Symphony of Science - Secret of the Stars

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humn

When a line goes almost where you expect it, your mind fills it in with multiple endings.

(that was a late response)

(Here is the latest late response:)

What a science nerd smorgasbord! I've seen almost all of those clips!

Mithrandir

The music is nice too :D

humn

True! that was the first impresion.

manshu

10:06 AM

A cute video to look at:

Maroon 5 - Don't Wanna Know

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humn

But if we're not careful, Mithrandir, we'll get beat up in this neighbrhood, on technicalities.

And there go you (my future manshelf) daring fate.

Mithrandir

I like science. That's how I found those - music + science = good, no? :)

humn

Never cower! (coming from someone with terminal stage fright in person)

(Also coming from someone who will break a bone in defense of another who didn't cower.)

manshu

What a tiring afternoon!!

humn

Afternoon on Mars.

On Earth it is 3:12am.

manshu

10:12 AM

half an hour later...the moment will come.

humn

Hang on! Centrixxxal force is working against us.

manshu

also one minute later too.

Mithrandir

In Tauremornalómë it is 1:13PM.

humn

Right on schecdule!

... as in "Right on!"

manshu

10 minutes later in Tauremornalómë

humn

10:15 AM

Trying to be funny: I was in bed with my cousin and asked if they'd done what it took to prevent what we both dreaded at the time.

Answer: Time is relative.

(second cousin, if anyone's keeping score)

Oboy were those lines deletable....

Mithrandir

o_o

manshu

what if what Einstein meant by "Time is relative" is that "Time is different at different time zones" and not "Time passes differently for bodies at different velocities."

humn

You said "bodies"... thank you for covering

Mithrandir

Then we've all been deluded and must go into exile.

manshu

And then later he acted (when it was taken for the velocities) "...errrr....ok"

Mithrandir

10:19 AM

@humn I'm hoping you don't mean what I think you mean...

manshu

Aren't we all exiled to ourselves.?

humn

This second cousin was even more attractive than the first ones.

Don't know why they felt the same about me!

Mithrandir

...

humn

(Yes, I've been attracted to nonrelations even more... biology!)

It's only a matter of time, and I've served mine.

manshu

O_O

humn

10:25 AM

I could write a naughty novel about the promises my friend's daughters gave.

It's only a matter of time.

Mithrandir

מה מה מה - שוואקי קיסריה 2 | Ma Ma Ma - Shwekey Caesarea II

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manshu

That would be a national bestseller and a classic

Mithrandir

^^what I just played on the piano

humn

!?!?!?! ^ ?!?!?!

manshu

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (FULL)

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^^^what I am still trying to play on my keyboard

@Mithrandir nice melody.

humn

10:31 AM

And Moonlight Sonata is almost architectural in how it builds.

manshu

Just like Bohemian Rhapsody.

humn

!

manshu

I like the result Freddie gets in the end of the song (probably what I love most about the song)... "Nothing really matters, anyone can see. Nothing really matters, to me."

humn

Great connection, manshu, now it's obvious all of a sudden.

manshu

what is obvious? o.O

humn

10:35 AM

That you have an ear.

And that one of these orbits I will beshu.

manshu

Whenever I am sad, that is what I usually remind myself (in the voice same as Freddie's).

Mithrandir

👍

humn

(oh wow, any onlookers, nothing to see here, this kind of affection has been shared between manshu and humn for some time, as long as Earth and Mars near equilibrium.)

manshu

(we hope @Randal'Thor is aware of it to whom we still thank for unfreezing the room)

humn

Right!

manshu

10:42 AM

time to go and have some fun.

humn

Sally forth!

manshu

Cya on the other side of the moon (assuming that the Moon is between Mars and Earth)

humn

(manshu has been the most consistent guiding light around here)

(not the only! just from the start and unwavered)

(reach for the insulin before all that sap causes hyperglycemia)

(that was not funny to everyone I know who deals with glycemic turbulence)

... bye for now from this medical editor ...

Mithrandir

o/

Gallifreyan

5:35 PM

Gallifreyan

5:45 PM

I went to my university library today and lost half an hour after casually picking Dream Country.

And I discovered a shelf full of books about comics, e.g. how to draw comics and how comics came to be in general.

Gallifreyan

6:02 PM

Original Art for sale on eBay from SandmanMidnightTheatre @neilhimself and Deadman http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222546335860?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222546324484?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 #sandman

Tweeted by TeddyKrist on June 15, 2017 at 5:56 PM

Mithrandir

6:16 PM

@Gallifreyan nice; those would be useful at Comics.SE.

Gallifreyan

If it ever takes off :D

I'm not so convinced about the need for Comics SE now.

manshu

7:35 PM

@humn thanks humn :)

Bookworm

8:02 PM

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Q: Meaning of President "Coin" in the Hunger Games books?

Me impression was the same Coin is meaningful as opposed to arbitrary. My thoughts on the meaning so far are: "Other side of the same coin" in that Coin represents the good guys, but is also an authoritarian This relates to the communal society of District 13, rendered necessary due to the c...

Rand al'Thor

10:09 PM

@Shokhet Thanks for doing my vote-begging for me :-P

@manshu @humn I'm aware of the room you two have, yes. I don't ever go over there because it seems kind of personal/private between you and I'd feel like an intruder if I did :-)

Mith's Desk

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