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Post by The Anarch on Jul 28, 2020 14:58:16 GMT
Pssh, Coyote ain't no big shakes. Heck, he literally doesn't even exist. |
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Post by speedwell on Jul 28, 2020 15:26:07 GMT
I hypothesize that if Jones is an idealized woman then there should be an idealized man around somewhere, but even so she's unique so I don't think I can accept the comparison. The idealized woman has no creativity and no capability of emotional connection? Pygmalion evidently thought so.  |
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Post by fia on Jul 28, 2020 19:48:03 GMT
The "devoid of emotion" appearing Anthony might have seemed like a candidate for fearless husband. I was thinking exactly the opposite, actually. That maybe older Brinnie wants a fearless husband because Tony, the first boy to reject her, was such a dang coward!!! Poor Brinnie. Tough to think she'll be rejected again later by the firewall-defying man of her dreams  |
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Post by speedwell on Jul 28, 2020 22:31:23 GMT
The "devoid of emotion" appearing Anthony might have seemed like a candidate for fearless husband. I was thinking exactly the opposite, actually. That maybe older Brinnie wants a fearless husband because Tony, the first boy to reject her, was such a dang coward!!! Poor Brinnie. Tough to think she'll be rejected again later by the firewall-defying man of her dreams Got to give Anthony the credit due him for a certain kind of obsessively focused courage, though. After all the man braved hardships natural, supernatural, and unnatural for at least a couple of years straight that would probably have killed a normal person and came close to killing him. |
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 28, 2020 23:47:34 GMT
The "devoid of emotion" appearing Anthony might have seemed like a candidate for fearless husband. I was thinking exactly the opposite, actually. That maybe older Brinnie wants a fearless husband because Tony, the first boy to reject her, was such a dang coward!!! Poor Brinnie. Tough to think she'll be rejected again later by the firewall-defying man of her dreams Reject her? She never asked. Regarding firewall-defying man, I thought she would fall in love with a hacker.
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Post by netherdan on Jul 29, 2020 2:51:40 GMT
I hypothesize that if Jones is an idealized woman then there should be an idealized man around somewhere, but even so she's unique so I don't think I can accept the comparison. The idealized woman has no creativity and no capability of emotional connection? "Absolutely everything that belongs to the 'material world' is made of a material that time can erode, but everything is made after a timeless 'mold' or 'form' that is eternal and immutable." - Sophie's World (2.3 - Plato, The World of Ideas) I think it was meant that kind of "idealized", and not the "what others should look up to" idealized PS: oh dam, didn't see there was a second page. |
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Post by speedwell on Jul 29, 2020 6:25:55 GMT
I was thinking exactly the opposite, actually. That maybe older Brinnie wants a fearless husband because Tony, the first boy to reject her, was such a dang coward!!! Poor Brinnie. Tough to think she'll be rejected again later by the firewall-defying man of her dreams Reject her? She never asked. Regarding firewall-defying man, I thought she would fall in love with a hacker.
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Post by silicondream on Jul 29, 2020 13:05:40 GMT
I was thinking exactly the opposite, actually. That maybe older Brinnie wants a fearless husband because Tony, the first boy to reject her, was such a dang coward!!! Poor Brinnie. Tough to think she'll be rejected again later by the firewall-defying man of her dreams Got to give Anthony the credit due him for a certain kind of obsessively focused courage, though. After all the man braved hardships natural, supernatural, and unnatural for at least a couple of years straight that would probably have killed a normal person and came close to killing him. Oh, yes. An obsessive loner genius who's utterly devoted to his chosen partner, and willing to endure discomfort, dismemberment and death for a cause? That's Valkyrie catnip right there. After all, a Valkyrie's job description is to select the most suicidally brave warriors and recruit them into Odin's cosmic army, so that they can train for half an eternity and then die again during Ragnarok. You don't get into Valhalla based on your social skills. |
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Post by blahzor on Jul 29, 2020 13:09:44 GMT
chapter no where near the end if the poll is for end of chapter and will run for some weeks
so like 12 pages or so?
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Post by saardvark on Jul 29, 2020 13:14:33 GMT
Got to give Anthony the credit due him for a certain kind of obsessively focused courage, though. After all the man braved hardships natural, supernatural, and unnatural for at least a couple of years straight that would probably have killed a normal person and came close to killing him. Oh, yes. An obsessive loner genius who's utterly devoted to his chosen partner, and willing to endure discomfort, dismemberment and death for a cause? That's Valkyrie catnip right there. After all, a Valkyrie's job description is to select the most suicidally brave warriors and recruit them into Odin's cosmic army, so that they can train for half an eternity and then die again during Ragnarok. You don't get into Valhalla based on your social skills. welcome to the forum, Si-dream ! |
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Post by speedwell on Jul 29, 2020 19:34:32 GMT
Got to give Anthony the credit due him for a certain kind of obsessively focused courage, though. After all the man braved hardships natural, supernatural, and unnatural for at least a couple of years straight that would probably have killed a normal person and came close to killing him. Oh, yes. An obsessive loner genius who's utterly devoted to his chosen partner, and willing to endure discomfort, dismemberment and death for a cause? That's Valkyrie catnip right there. After all, a Valkyrie's job description is to select the most suicidally brave warriors and recruit them into Odin's cosmic army, so that they can train for half an eternity and then die again during Ragnarok. You don't get into Valhalla based on your social skills. Although it's a bit cringeworthy, Brynhilda of the mythology is not exactly known for her good luck with the menfolk.  Valkyries did not choose the men they guided; they were ordered to by Odin half the time and Frigg the other half (only half the chosen slain were Odin's, interestingly). |
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Post by todd on Jul 29, 2020 23:13:43 GMT
they were ordered to by Odin half the time and Frigg the other half (only half the chosen slain were Odin's, interestingly). Freya rather than Frigg, actually, though I've seen theories that the two might have been different versions of the same goddess. |
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Valkyries did not choose the men they guided; they were ordered to by Odin half the time and Frigg the other half (only half the chosen slain were Odin's, interestingly).