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Or it may be the straw that broke the camel's back.

🎬📽 #filmsky While watching Princess Mononoke realizing how much Avatar The Last Airbender derives from Miyasaki

🎬📽 #filmsky Porco Rosso: Miyasaki does noir

One map to visualize the fires in southwestern France

But there is no easy resolution, no reduction to a third view that transcends and incorporates both East and West. Incompatibility and how to manage it for the sake of life is central to Mr. Garfinkle's works, and this is an excellent introduction. www.abebooks.com/978031285934...

Set in an alternate reality, two empires with radically different politics, war strategies, even physics, some sort of mutual understanding -- enough to keep the protagonists alive -- is imperative. 2/

💬📚 #bookskychat First published in 1996, "Celestial Matters" (Richard Garfinkle) has stayed with me for 30 years because it addresses such a fundamental question: what is reality, anyway? 1/

In medieval thought the Great Chain of Being arranged everything in a strict order from best (God) to worst. We haven't entirely freed ourselves from that conception.

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Correction. It's not a romance it's a collection of short stories.

Thanks. Very kind to go to that effort. I've only read some of your stories (and played some of your TTRPGs), but your essay strikes me as very true. Someday I'll read your book on programming. The premise matches my own experience. Meanwhile, bonne écire.

I would like that.

Sadly, I can read only the beginning of this. But it starts very well.

I wrote a Tumblr post about why I write what I write. It's too long for Bluesky. I've been unwisely avoiding talking about what potential readers might need to know in order to figure out whether to look at my books or not. www.tumblr.com/richardgarfi...

Source?

This book my French teacher loaned me? Yeah 1. I understand maybe half of it 2. It's a romance 3. It's also a student edition but the notes are in German. I'll give it another chapter or two but it's almost certainly a DNF

I do love when something that has been known for a decade is published as a new finding.

Bonne chance

Summoned from beyond the grave, the shade of Otto von Bismarck was asked how he thought the next major would start. "Some damn thing in the Middle East."