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  1. MikeL
    Our beloved goat-author, C James, has released Chapter 46 of Let the Music Play. I predict Brandon will be saved from his precarious perch by a trained mountain goat. Hang on, Brandon! Help is on the way!
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    ...and dentists.
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    Something like "gray home", I think.
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    Nickname plus first letter of surname = Mike+L = MikeL. Is that clever or what?
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    Not exactly legal. Of course it would take years to get a decision from the Supreme Court. The Air Force could hold him secretly for a while. Some good military intelligence or CID people would get a lot out of him in 48 hours or so.
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    The July 2008 issue of Smithsonian magazine has an interesting article about the Vikings and a reproduction Viking ship. The ship has sailed in the North Sea and around the British Isles. You can read the article at "Raiders or Traders".
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    Clues from chapter 45: There are some places along the mountainside where a person can stand...or break a fall.
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    Average velocity va of an object that has been falling for time t (averaged over time): va=
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    A exceptionally strong sidearm I would say.
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    If Steve doesn't survive, perhaps Joe Clump will replace him with the Shadows and they will continue to tour with Instinct. Let's hope that both Steve and Brandon do survive. What will save them?
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    Wow! Great chapter, CJ. Lots of action. Definitely a cliffhanger...literally.
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    C James has released Chapter 45 of Let the Music Play. Read on cliffhanger lovers.
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    CJ, I recognized your reference to William Walker. He is included in Tennessee History courses taught in middle school here in Tennessee. I think the textbooks make him out to be more a hero than the actually was. One of his primary goals was to establish new slave states in Latin America out of the reach of the US Government. For more info, see William Walker (Soldier) or Walkers Expeditions. Here is an historical marker located in Nashville:
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    An interesting idea, but CJ is already trying to redirect our thinking away from vertical mine shafts: Perhaps there is a sloping shaft built for drainage - which the Shadows will spot at the bottom of the ravine - that connects to the shaft Dimitri and Chase are in. Even without climbing gear, Shadow could get behind Dimitri and overpower, or at least distract, him. The sacrifice could be anyone - hopefully, not a member of Instinct. Dimitri's demise, IMHO, wouldn't be a sacrifice. Is 24 ever going to return?
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    I don't consider the small amount about Jerry/Scar unusual. (It could pass for what Fox News would call, "fair and balanced".) After all, next to the action in Telluride, what's another Latin American coup? I think it is clear from the story that Scar is in Paraguay.
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    Also Eric's rock climbing injury in chapters 19-20 was necessary for Jerry to smuggle the kryton (sp?) switches into Australia.
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    As I remember hearing it some years ago, when I was in the Army, Soviet rifles had a slightly larger caliber than the NATO 7.62 mm weapons. They could use captured ammo, but the good guys could not use captured commie ammo.
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    C James (the old goat) has released Chapter 44 of Let the Music Play in its entirety. Will Instinct survive? Will Dimitri become swiss cheese? Will there be a cliffhanger? Read away, goat lover.
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    My previous post was fatiguing but I decided to establish a poll on the burning issue of one-sentence paragraphs. I went back to reread the first four paragraphs of Let the Music Play, Chapter 44. Surprise! Surprise! There is no one-sentence paragraph in the selection. How did we ever get into this discussion? CJ urged us to read the four paragraphs again. We all took that to be a disclaimer of a cliffhanger. Just shows how misleading the old goat can be. He can give you an honest, straight-forward response to one issue and make you believe it is a quibbling response to a different issue.
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    I think you are right. A paragraph can be one sentence if the subject or thought changes. What really bugs me is a paragraph that goes on and on. I think some breaks would be welcome by the reader even if the subject or thought does not change. I once reviewed a legal document in which one paragraph went on for a page and a half single-spaced. I know legal language is a special subset of English, but that paragraph contained just one sentence. I was tempted to ask an English teacher to diagram it.
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    I hereby challenge CJ to write a one-sentence cliffhanger.
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    CJ, you need to look at that definition again. The last paragraph of Chapter 43 does not resolve the cliffhanger. The chapter ends unresolved. Also, by your own admission, the first four paragraphs of Chapter 44 were originally the last four paragraphs of Chapter 43. There always was and remains a cliffhanger here.
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