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Topic Started: Dec 18 2008, 02:48 AM (4,017 Views)
Apollo
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It does not.
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Erm, Yes, I believe that the author in question here is Jonathan Stroud.
When I set out from the boy's attic window, my head was so full of competing plans and complex strategems that I didn't look where I was going and flew straight into a chimney.

Something symbolic in that. It's what fake freedom does for you.
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The author in immediate question is Stephen King, is it not? Dansariki made a post referencing the novel Insomnia, by Stephen King.
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Well, asking if you'd read it, properly.
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I have not.
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Ah.
Oh well then, nevermind.
His descriptions fit rather nicely with this.
Knowledge is Power, Power Corrupts, and Corruption Destroys.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~Isaac Asimov
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
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Count upon Dansarinki and Apollo to completely stray from the question at hand.
"Give me back my face!" "Look at that sunset. Like blood and melted cheese."
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And dear Honorius to resurrect an ancient topic, and me to reply to those that I feel like replying to.
Knowledge is Power, Power Corrupts, and Corruption Destroys.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~Isaac Asimov
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
~Medgar Evers

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And me to attempt to dominate the "Active Topic" list, except when faced with a topic which I do not like, from which I would promptly stray off topic.
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Dec 18 2008, 02:48 AM
Was reading the books again recently, and found a possible error. In AoS Bart says that djinn have good night vision; night or day, it's all the same to them. Check the book if you disagree. However, in PG, when Bart is encountering Faquarl in the body of Hopkins for the first time, in order to get away he turns of the lights. The rest of the paragraph is written as if he can't see. This is contradictary to book 1, where hitting the lights would have done nothing to impair the vision of djinn. Besides, wouldn't their auras light up the kitchen anyway? What's going on?
Maybe that vision is only as good as they let their form be.

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And me to attempt to dominate the "Active Topic" list, except when faced with a topic which I do not like, from which I would promptly stray off topic.

...How has Sentystone not gotten anal at you yet?
流口水的婊子和猴子的笨儿子。
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The same reason he doesn't with me when I do it:
The majority of it actually does contribute to the topics posted.
I think my last on-topic post said what I thought, but I have to visit the boy's room, so I don't think I'll look for it :)
Knowledge is Power, Power Corrupts, and Corruption Destroys.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~Isaac Asimov
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
~Medgar Evers

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Thanks for answering for me, Dansarinki.

I was going to say something so similar to what you said that I might as well have quoted you.
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Would that include the boys room comment?
Knowledge is Power, Power Corrupts, and Corruption Destroys.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~Isaac Asimov
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
~Medgar Evers

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It might.

... awkward...
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Alright then...
So.
You all should read some Stephen King, good writer.
I personally have read Insomnia (imagery pertinent to the topic), It, and The Stand.
Knowledge is Power, Power Corrupts, and Corruption Destroys.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~Isaac Asimov
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
~Medgar Evers

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