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kakistocracy - Word of the Day - Mon Dec 16, 2024
drpaladin commented on Myr's blog entry in Writing World
No Periodic Table. -
kakistocracy - Word of the Day - Mon Dec 16, 2024
drpaladin commented on Myr's blog entry in Writing World
Why isn't cacastocracy a word or form of government? -
kakistocracy - Word of the Day - Mon Dec 16, 2024
drpaladin commented on Myr's blog entry in Writing World
Even in the best and most well ordered governments, you will still run into a certain degree of kakistocracy at some level. -
If reincarnation is involved, how can there be a ghost? You can't have your cake and eat it too.
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Greg is making good progress in both his rule and private life. Trick or treating should prove interesting.
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After his rest, Robert put his encounter with Alfie together and realized he was a ghost. Is Alfie unsettled because his body was never found? He died at the mid-point of the war.
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And wringing wet wee wit is so alliterative.
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Another reason to look forward to Christmas Eve.
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We have a what if here. Alfie had expected to spend the night. What if Robert had invited him to stay? I think we are headed there. Robert is sure to mention his visitor to his host in the morning.
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It hasn't yet clicked with Robert the young soldier who visited his room is a ghost. He would have been a contemporary of Robert's great grandfather. It's amusing so little has changed at the old farmhouse in the hundred plus years.
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Please note the apparition's describtion says fatigues, so he's more likely a soldier than farmer. After all, the story is named Trench Rat. He asks, "Where is Patrick?" Patrick isn't a French name and it's hardly a leap to assume he's not French either. He seems like the ghosts of The Sixth Sense and has no idea he's dead.
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At least dirty spectres leave no residue behind.
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This small village probably sees few or none English tourists. The Great War is for practical purposes ancient even though the scars still remain. Who else would a lonely, ghostly Brit reach out to but our troubled traveler? Great start!
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For some, so is getting damp with wee. Not my thing though.
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So Fogrot and Rummert aren't dead, just lost. It may make it easier for Simon to get them out.
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Oh my. Are we to get in a tussle of we's, wees, or wheeze? I don't know whether to be damp or breathless.
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Are we using the Royal 'We' now?
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Mcarss has skillfully crafted a world different from our own, but harrowingly the same in many ways. Callum is rare among his kind, ethical, gentle, and deep thinking. He is lost and lonely in his birthplace. His entry into manhood takes him places he has only dreamed of and a great adventure awaits.
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The Sea, Pt. 3 / Hereafters
drpaladin commented on Mike Carss's story chapter in The Sea, Pt. 3 / Hereafters
The final push to reach the shore was agonizing and tense, but they made it. Their salvation was in a mere trinket Callum kept for sentimentality. I'll miss the interludes spying on these character's lives, but all good stories come to an end. Well done! -
Possibly, but these peoples don't seem to have a history of long distance traveling and have had no reason to study or develop star navigation. You also have to consider a moon so close to have a ten day cycle would dominate the night sky much of the time. So much ambient light and the position of the moon itself would obscure many stars.
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The thing is the possible paths are nearly infinite when they have such rudimentary maps. With the detours they took they could be many, many miles off course. Or they could have had problems and turned back. Any kind of signals would have limited visibility. Smoke from fires would be subject to winds and with the way this sea moves, the winds must be significant.
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Chris has reached the fourth Ascention and the fifth is supposedly in reach. I'd be concerned about aspiring to the seventh level. It doesn't sound corporeal.
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Their joining of souls was beautiful.
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There should be no doubts about the power of magic.
