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Post by Corvo on Dec 10, 2013 16:33:02 GMT
And I read things very carefully most of the time, but I don't got this one. Quicklime?
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Post by thshrkpnchr on Dec 10, 2013 16:47:59 GMT
And I read things very carefully most of the time, but I don't got this one. Quicklime? It appears in some early comics, and in a treatise. E: I looked it up again, and it turns out to be a symplified mercury symbol. Sorry |
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Post by Corvo on Dec 10, 2013 16:51:17 GMT
And I read things very carefully most of the time, but I don't got this one. Quicklime? It appears in some early comics, and in a treatise. ...Quicklime? |
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Post by King Mir on Dec 10, 2013 16:51:51 GMT
And I read things very carefully most of the time, but I don't got this one. Quicklime? Renard has a symbol associated with him, or possibly possession. It looks like an alchemical symbol for mercury or possibly as thshrkpnchr interprets it, quicklime. |
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Post by thshrkpnchr on Dec 10, 2013 16:52:54 GMT
Ninja'd just by a few second! It was just unobservant me playing around, sorry!
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Post by Corvo on Dec 10, 2013 17:02:02 GMT
And I read things very carefully most of the time, but I don't got this one. Quicklime? Renard has a symbol associated with him, or possibly possession. It looks like an alchemical symbol for mercury or possibly as thshrkpnchr interprets it, quicklime. Oh, that. I was furiously trying to find the quicklime symbol on the treatise just now, haha! |
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Post by Gotolei on Dec 11, 2013 17:16:23 GMT
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Post by lit on Dec 11, 2013 23:50:26 GMT
I don't remember how old Annie is when the comic starts, but the dorm design for the year seven students suddenly strikes me as... highly irresponsible, especially considering how itty-bitty those year seven students look. Those upper bunks must be hundreds of feet off the ground. During the emergency with Renard crashing into the place, I'm really surprised more people weren't injured. All it would take would be to step on the ladder the wrong way in your hurry to get down. And considering 29 children were descending at the same time - like - on one ladder?? at the same time??? after something scary crashing into their dorm and with all those crazy alarms going off?  For the longest time I didn't even question it. This sort of improbable story-telling really adds to the dreamlike quality of the whole piece. Neat! |
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Post by fishtie on Dec 13, 2013 5:10:28 GMT
Don't know it it's cool per se, but...  Hunh... And both these chapters are right after a break. |
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Post by quinkgirl on Dec 13, 2013 15:49:23 GMT
Don't know it it's cool per se, but... Hunh... And both these chapters are right after a break. Are you implying that Annie is going to buy 3 cans of hair gel...? |
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Post by thshrkpnchr on Dec 13, 2013 15:58:35 GMT
Don't know it it's cool per se, but... Hunh... And both these chapters are right after a break. Are you implying that Annie is going to buy 3 cans of hair gel...? And never wash her hair again? |
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Post by alpacalypse on Dec 13, 2013 16:26:59 GMT
I feel really dumb, but its amazing how many time Ive re read and still find new things. This time Irealized in Two Strange girls, the banner between Annie and Kat has a Z for Zimmy and the greek symbol for Gamma on it. Also when Annie was going to Eglamore's office after falling off the bridge, you can see an office for Ms. Jones.
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Post by thshrkpnchr on Dec 13, 2013 16:44:05 GMT
I feel really dumb, but its amazing how many time Ive re read and still find new things. This time Irealized in Two Strange girls, the banner between Annie and Kat has a Z for Zimmy and the greek symbol for Gamma on it. Also when Annie was going to Eglamore's office after falling off the bridge, you can see an office for Ms. Jones. I think that's for Zeta, which also refers to Zimmy |
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Post by fuzzyone on Dec 29, 2013 23:17:43 GMT
I posted something in the daily thread for page 1294, and supported it with a few pages... And I don't know if this is the right place for it, but my brain just went on a tangent. I have ADD, it does that. But regardless, Annie falls into the ravine. Annie is saved by Tictocs. One tictoc is damaged beyond repair. Annie discovers that they are mechanical. Annie is confronted by Jeanne. Jeanne draws blood in the ether. The blood falls to the ground. Ysengrin comes along and buries the tictoc in the ground. From that spot,the tictoc grows. Ysengrin goes back and "finds" it later, growing into the cliff, uses it as justification for the meeting in Fangs of Summertime.
This is verging into Wildspec territory, but since that thread is primarily for things that we don't really expect to be true at all, but combining Etheric blood, soil, and tictoc equals growing techsprawl covering several feet from a bird barely over a foot in size. I also point out that it's possible the Court was grown,rather than built... Considering the nature of crystalline bismuth, as has been posted on this board several times... I think I see some implications for the Seed Bismuth. I don't know what, yet. But the implications are not pleasant.
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Post by Señor Goose on Dec 30, 2013 4:42:23 GMT
Another thing: in chapter 40, page 1111 takes place in the Hadean eon, and page 1110 is in the Silurian period. In 1111 Jonsie is buried up to her face in lava, and in 1110 she's buried up to her face in rock, in the same way. Now the kicker: the Hadean eon is generally agreed to have ended 4 billion years ago, while the Silurian period started roughly 443 million years ago. Now my math is a bit rusty, but it seems that about 3.5 billion years passed between those two pages. And Jones spent every minute of it buried up to her face in stone.
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Post by thshrkpnchr on Dec 30, 2013 15:11:33 GMT
It's pretty noticeable, but I somehow only got this on the reread: In page 155, Annie's egyptian speech bubble spells out "annie" |
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Post by warrl on Dec 30, 2013 15:19:08 GMT
It's pretty noticeable, but I somehow only got this on the reread: In page 155, Annie's egyptian speech bubble spells out "annie" I can't disagree, but I can't agree either. As far as I'm aware, nobody knows how heiroglyphics were pronounced. The only thing we're really sure of in that regard is that the script is *not* an alphabet; the symbols directly represent things or ideas, not sounds. So how did you arrive at the conclusion that that's what she's saying? |
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Post by thshrkpnchr on Dec 30, 2013 16:11:47 GMT
It's pretty noticeable, but I somehow only got this on the reread: In page 155, Annie's egyptian speech bubble spells out "annie" I can't disagree, but I can't agree either. As far as I'm aware, nobody knows how heiroglyphics were pronounced. The only thing we're really sure of in that regard is that the script is *not* an alphabet; the symbols directly represent things or ideas, not sounds. So how did you arrive at the conclusion that that's what she's saying? I was digging through this. |
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Post by sidhekin on Dec 30, 2013 23:45:17 GMT
It's pretty noticeable, but I somehow only got this on the reread: In page 155, Annie's egyptian speech bubble spells out "annie" I can't disagree, but I can't agree either. As far as I'm aware, nobody knows how heiroglyphics were pronounced. The only thing we're really sure of in that regard is that the script is *not* an alphabet; the symbols directly represent things or ideas, not sounds. Nah, that's a long, long abandoned idea. These days "we" think that, while some hieroglyphs were indeed pictograms, others were phonetic. If Wikipedia can be trusted, Jean-François Champollion wrote already in 1822: "It is a complex system, writing figurative, symbolic, and phonetic all at once, in the same text, the same phrase, I would almost say in the same word." As for knowing how it was pronounced: Strictly speaking, we don't know how classical Latin was pronounced. We're theorizing, based on current languages descended from Latin, from observations over the last few centuries how languages change, and downright assumptions (or hypotheses, to be polite). Besides, if the ideas of human beings reshape even the past, then the current best theory may well be the (current) truth. Even to the Guides. Or is that particularly to the guides?  |
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Post by legion on Dec 31, 2013 14:26:30 GMT
Yeah, we know pretty well what the *consonants* of Egyptian were; the vowels are more shaky, but we still can get a good idea based contemporary Greek transcriptions of Egyptian words, as well as the Coptic language, which is descended from Egyptian but written with an alphabet.
Edit: many of the "undecyphered" writing systems of the past are actually pretty well understood today; this includes Egyptian, Sumerian, Aztec and Maya hieroglyphs.
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Post by polioman on Jan 1, 2014 1:33:17 GMT
Something weird I noticed in chapter 14 (The Fangs of Summertime) was Coyote staying out of panel or in the shadows, and remaining silent, leaving all the human interactions to Ysengrin for quite a few pages. Thoughts?
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Post by Per on Jan 1, 2014 1:36:06 GMT
Ysengrin was the forest medium, so it was his job.
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 1, 2014 20:04:31 GMT
Many of the "undecyphered" writing systems of the past are actually pretty well understood today; this includes Egyptian, Sumerian, Aztec and Maya hieroglyphs. Oh, there's plenty more to still work out. Here's a reading list...And that's just what I've heard of |
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Post by legion on Jan 1, 2014 20:28:55 GMT
Oh there are plenty of *actually* undeciphered systems left, I am not denying that, but those are not the ones popular culture is usually familiar with.
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 1, 2014 21:15:39 GMT
Oh there are plenty of *actually* undeciphered systems left, I am not denying that, but those are not the ones popular culture is usually familiar with. True, true. I found a wonderful page about popular misconceptions, btw - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions |
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Post by GK Sierra on Jan 2, 2014 0:50:40 GMT
Oh there are plenty of *actually* undeciphered systems left, I am not denying that, but those are not the ones popular culture is usually familiar with. True, true. I found a wonderful page about popular misconceptions, btw - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptionsSometimes I wish I had the money to rent fleets of planes and drop copies of this from the sky. If I had a nickle for every time I have heard someone say "daddy long legs are the most poisonous spider, but they can't pierce your skin" or something similar, I would be typing this from a beach-front house in Malibu. |
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 2, 2014 1:25:54 GMT
Sometimes I wish I had the money to rent fleets of planes and drop copies of this from the sky. If I had a nickle for every time I have heard someone say "daddy long legs are the most poisonous spider, but they can't pierce your skin" or something similar, I would be typing this from a beach-front house in Malibu. I've actually never heard that particular one, but several others on here are things I hear often. One or two I am guilty of believing myself. I have no sympathy who lose money because of the gambler's fallacy, though. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Jan 10, 2014 20:14:01 GMT
Hah, just noticed that Kat is wearing a "Joe Cool" sweatshirt tied around her waist while they explore Jeanne's Tomb. gunnerkrigg.com/?p=432 |
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Post by maxptc on Jan 10, 2014 21:00:17 GMT
Hah, just noticed that Kat is wearing a "Joe Cool" sweatshirt tied around her waist while they explore Jeanne's Tomb. gunnerkrigg.com/?p=432That is pretty neat, good catch. It isn't really hidden, so I'm a little surprised I didn't see it before. |
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Post by fishtie on Jan 11, 2014 6:53:50 GMT
I slap my forehead as I just realize:
Andrew Smith = most common boring name in English language
Clearly his powers were already in effect at his birth.
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