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(...) Yeah, well, I'm STILL gonna go see The Lord of the Rings - I've been waiting (wait, I've run out of toes and fingers!) a long time for this. :-) Bruce (it's not like I haven't read it enough) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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a somewhat fuller review: Thomas M. Disch: _The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World_ I didn't realize how sardonic his book was until I had paid for it. In the first chapter, The Right To Lie, Disch explores how (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) (snipped) I have also had dreams involving massive amounts of LEGO Bricks... The one I racall best started with me sat on the bus, going on a somehow familiar street; Then I looked at a store which had the window FULL of Classic Castle sets (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) screens. Maybe, maybe not. Would these legions of consumers have been wearing HP costumes if the movie hadn't been at the crest of a marketing wave since early Spring? I doubt it, though we can never know for sure. In any case, you're (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I had a dream last night ... I was building, per usual, in front of stacks of Akro-Mils storage units, with all of the pieces sorted by type. So far, pretty grounded in reality, right? Well, I then determined what pieces I needed more of, and (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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(...) I stand by my characterization. Did you happen to walk around on Halloween night? There were LEGIONS of kids wearing wizard costumes. The story has struck a chord with the children of the world to such an amazing extent that they are actually (...) (23 years ago, 8-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) But you can't have your cookies and eat them too. ;) Scott Member 718 (23 years ago, 9-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) But they're soooo tasty...especially with a big, cold glass of chocolate milk... <Homer> Mmmmmmmm...cookies.... </Homer> Matt (23 years ago, 9-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) sorely disappointed in the final product. Cities built around this thing? Cities where? Magical domed cities (so weather isn't a problem), where everything you need is within 5.5 miles of your residence (so you don't run out of juice), and (...) (23 years ago, 9-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) But she'll never admit it!! Brilliant clock, by the way!! ROSCO FUT .o-t.fun (23 years ago, 8-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) And, in the category of "unfathomably weird music videos," here's a foreign version of "Rubber Duckie" to a dance beat, with one of the most mindless video renditions I've seen since...well, since Hyakogujyuuichi. Or "Yatta." Trust me, it's (...) (23 years ago, 8-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) **snip of some discussion of theme archetypes** The central issue is originality and cleverness of presentation. To this end, I would say Rowling has definitely achieved originality of the whole if not of the parts, and that's really all an (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I am not really taking issue with the above statement, but it reminded me of a great essay in cultural anthropology: "Shakespeare in the Bush" (URL) surprised to find it online and for FREE! I love that essay... -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) snip and James goes on to give several other striking similarities. I am 30 years old, and I have read the Hobbit, LoTR, and most all of JRR Tolkien's other related works, as well as most of Christopher Tolkien's scholarship on his father's (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmm.. Another great point. Maybe I should reduce the "absoluteness" of my earlier comment, and say simply that many post-Tolkien writers are very heavily influenced by him. How's that for non-commital?! 8^) (...) Feh! Time and space are surely (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Asimov's magazine (arrived yesterday) carries an article contrasting polar opposites Tolkien and ... Mervyn Peake (_Gormenghast_). Somehow I have managed to delay learning more than how to spell that, and this columnist considers him the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) So this is a metric gayometer, then :) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmm. It gave me 41%. Perhaps it is calibrated from UK "Gayness". Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Ah yes cool I'd forgotten those. I'll add them to the list :) (by the way the list in the last posting was a JOKE) :P -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado "Dave Schuler" (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's a little premature. When I was a kid, *everybody* in my class had read or listened to those authors I brought up (thanks to reading lists). Tolkien was obscure by comparison (few are able to conquer Tolkien before age 12. He didn't win (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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