[dkstories] Novelty DOR reviews

[Novelty]

I find it curious that nobody (except Dan) disagrees with my reviews either privately or publicly. Does that mean everyone is usually in agreement with the reveiws then?

 

Index of the Reviews:

• Chapter 4
  
• Chapter 5
  
• Chapter 6
  
• Chapter 7
  
• Chapters 8 & 9
  
• Chapters 10 & 11
  
• Chapter 12
  
• Chapters 13 & 14
  
• Chapter 15
  
• Chapter 16
  
• Chapter 17
  
• Chapter 18
  
• Chapter 19
  
• Chapter 20
  
• Chapter 21
  
• Chapter 22
  
• Chapter 23
  
• Chapter 24
  

[dkstories]

Your reviews suck!

 

 

(just kidding)

 

 

[Novelty]

Your reviews suck!

 

(just kidding)

 

Heh, great way to encourage discussion... not! *shrug* Point taken. Dan doesn't want us discussion my reviews...

[dkstories]

Sorry, Nov, I was just joking around...discuss away!

 

 

Oh, and WHERE'S THE LATEST REVIEW?

[Novelty]

It's not here since I've been told that it shouldn't be, but it's at where it's supposed to be.

[primewordsmith]

I find it curious that nobody (except Dan) disagrees with my reviews either privately or publicly.  Does that mean everyone is usually in agreement with the reviews then?

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It's just that we are all so gobsmacked by them, Your Grace, that we proletariats can't think of anything appropriate to say.

 

Oh, and I agree with you, it's easier if your reviews are here rather than at that other place.

 

And while we are all being so agreeable (Dan, please take note!), thank you so much, Monseigneur Le Duc, for prevailing upon Le Monarch Imperiuse de la DOR, to permit His own forum to be erected by you in His honour. Such a grande gesture!

 

I guess it just shows that with strong leadership (such as that provided by Your Grace), we prols can exert enough influence on Le Monarch to get a few cumbs from his table.

 

And not just any crumbs, but cake crumbs at that!

 

[Novelty]

It's just that we are all so gobsmacked by them

For being gobsmacked, you sure have a lot of things to say.

 

And not just any crumbs, but cake crumbs at that!

"Let them eat Cake." Attributed to Queen Marie-Antoinette when she heard about the French Revolution, or something stupid like that.

 

Edit: And the review for Chapter 18 is at here.

Edited May 6, 2005 by Novelty

[dkstories]

I just finished reading your review Novelty, and appreciate it as always.

 

 

Regarding the latter part and Davey's...joking. I'll tell you this, what you're reading into the situation is intentional. What it means...well y'all can conjecture for a while.

[NaperVic]

I find it curious that nobody (except Dan) disagrees with my reviews either privately or publicly.  Does that mean everyone is usually in agreement with the reveiws then?

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Novelty, are you asking for a review of the reviews? LOL

 

I wouldn't say that I am in agreement or disagreement with your reviews, but I actually *try* not to read them.

 

For the few authors and stories that I really like, I like to feel that the stories are

[lurker]

I find it curious that nobody (except Dan) disagrees with my reviews either privately or publicly.

[primewordsmith]

And not just any crumbs, but cake crumbs at that!

"Let them eat Cake." Attributed to Queen Marie-Antoinette when she heard about the French Revolution, or something stupid like that.

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I understand Her Majesty was thought to have made that infamous comment, when told the general population were starving, because they had no bread. It was probably this attitude she shared with others of the aristocracy, which permitted the French revolution to succeed.

 

Which leads one to wonder, with the level of poverty, ill-health, uneducation, no shelter, and lack of food and heating, found in so many major North American cities for so many people, just how long it might be before North America suffers its next revolution, and subsequential civil war.

 

When we hear some of the extraordinary utterances made by His Majesty the current emperor of North America, it could seem that an attitude, similar to Marie-Antoinette's, might still prevail in some high circles.

 

Of course, that well-known Australian export, Rupert the Fox, never informs the North American public of anything which might upset his cosy relationship with the currently governing cabal.

 

People need to reside outside Florida and its other united states to hear those sorts of things.

 

One has to wonder!

 

PWS

[dkstories]

hehehehehehe

[Novelty]

When we hear some of the extraordinary utterances made by His Majesty the current emperor of North America, it could seem that an attitude, similar to Marie-Antoinette's, might still prevail in some high circles.

I hope you're talking about GWB, because I'm nowhere near North America.

 

Besides, I've been told that the famous English translation of "Let them eat cake" contains a translation deficiency from the original French words that were uttered. Remember history is written by the victors, or in this case, some ignorant dweeb who can't even translate the original French properly into English. Or was the mistake deliberate so as to cast a bad light at Marie-Antoinette?

 

Oh and remember when you wrote:

Yeah, I think you're right Nov.

[Mark Arbour]

Besides, I've been told that the famous English translation of "Let them eat cake" contains a translation deficiency from the original French words that were uttered.  Remember history is written by the victors, or in this case, some ignorant dweeb who can't even translate the original French properly into English.  Or was the mistake deliberate so as to cast a bad light at Marie-Antoinette?  

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Well said Novelty, and totally correct. Marie Antoinette was vilified during her time for being Austrian, and after her time for being Queen. I think her greatest deficiencies were homesickness and immaturity, plus constant nagging from a dominating mother (Empress Maria Theresa).

[Novelty]

Well, I googled for this and got the following pages:

 

From The Straight Dope:

While Marie Antoinette was certainly enough of a bubblehead to have said the phrase in question, there is no evidence that she actually did so, and in any case she did not originate it. The peasants-have-no-bread story was in common currency at least since the 1760s as an illustration of the decadence of the aristocracy. The political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions it in his Confessions in connection with an incident that occurred in 1740. (He stole wine while working as a tutor in Lyons and then had problems trying to scrounge up something to eat along with it.) He concludes thusly: "Finally I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: 'Well, let them eat cake.'"

 

Now, J.-J. may have been embroidering this yarn with a line he had really heard many years later. But even so, at the time he was writing--early 1766--Marie Antoinette was only ten years old and still four years away from her marriage to the future Louis XVI.

 

 

 

From Ask Yahoo:

However, "Let them eat brioche" isn't quite as cold a sentiment as you might imagine. At the time, French law required bakers to sell fancy breads at the same low price as the plain breads if they ran out of the latter. The goal was to prevent bakers from making very little cheap bread and then profiting off the fancy, expensive bread. Whoever really said "Let them eat brioche" may have meant that the bakery laws should be enforced so the poor could eat the fancy bread if there wasn't enough plain bread to go around.

 

 

 

What is "brioche"? I asked my friend who is ethnic French and is currently living in Paris, and he confirms that brioche isn't cake. Cake is g

[Mark Arbour]

Well, I googled for this and got the following pages:

 

From The Straight Dope:

While Marie Antoinette was certainly enough of a bubblehead to have said the phrase in question, there is no evidence that she actually did so, and in any case she did not originate it. The peasants-have-no-bread story was in common currency at least since the 1760s as an illustration of the decadence of the aristocracy. The political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions it in his Confessions in connection with an incident that occurred in 1740. (He stole wine while working as a tutor in Lyons and then had problems trying to scrounge up something to eat along with it.) He concludes thusly: "Finally I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: 'Well, let them eat cake.'"

 

Now, J.-J. may have been embroidering this yarn with a line he had really heard many years later. But even so, at the time he was writing--early 1766--Marie Antoinette was only ten years old and still four years away from her marriage to the future Louis XVI.

 

 

 

From Ask Yahoo:

However, "Let them eat brioche" isn't quite as cold a sentiment as you might imagine. At the time, French law required bakers to sell fancy breads at the same low price as the plain breads if they ran out of the latter. The goal was to prevent bakers from making very little cheap bread and then profiting off the fancy, expensive bread. Whoever really said "Let them eat brioche" may have meant that the bakery laws should be enforced so the poor could eat the fancy bread if there wasn't enough plain bread to go around.

 

 

 

What is "brioche"? I asked my friend who is ethnic French and is currently living in Paris, and he confirms that brioche isn't cake. Cake is g

[Novelty]

...French society in the Ancien Regime ...

I was wondering where in France was "Ancien", since there is an "Amiens" and then I realised you meant "Ancient". Doh, I'm slow.

 

And I had to read your tongue in cheek comments about 5 times before I finally got the joke!

 

BTW, I only quoted part of the two articles I found. You might want to read the full articles before you pass judgement on them. (I found a lot more, but those two are from respected - by me at least - sites).

[Novelty]

The review for Chapter 22 is up, if anyone is interested. And it's a bit harsh than usual, I'm sure.

[dkstories]

Flame on, buddy.

 

 

Nice to see it up...

[Novelty]

Heh, I'll pass the torch on to ya, Dan.

 

And the review for 23 is up (links are all edited into the first post of this thread) - 2 more to go...