Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (Page 44 of 77)

Um, I'd say the air is evenly distributed in the tire and can't get out (no leaks), and that because some bright spark of an engineer has done the math that provides the height, cross-section. and air pressure of a tire that can stay inflated (not collapse) and support a range of weight. The weight of the car then is transferred through the sidewall of the tire to the ground. Over and under inflation of the tire messes with the math gone into the material thickness (layers of fabric or metal mesh), and the optimum air pressure needed to keep the tire inflated to where it can support the weight of the car without undue wear and tear or failure.
Under inflation results in most of the weight to be borne by the edges of the tire (the bottom of the sidewall) and less wear in the center of the tread. Over inflation causes some of the weight to be transferred to the middle of the tread causing more wear in the center.
Anyway, that's my guess.

The sidewall plays a part, but not that part.  Remember, its strength is in tension.

I'm not so sure I caught one as had a few rammed into my arms.

New chapter is up. Boy, I'm tired. I don't think there is much I can get done tonight, but I have the next two nights off. Will try to recip then. I owe you guys a million reviews.

Didn't know that about JJ. Thanks.

Rub it in, you Hawaii-living-the-dream guy!

OK, another chapter of Dictates is up. "Eyes That Can See".  I'd toot my own horn, but this one was already mostly written and just needed revision once I knew the specific situation.

Well, I was totally planning on catching up with your work today, Amy (though I'm sure you have many reviewers with more skill than myself), but then someone decided to blow up the equipment on their yacht and all my downtime at the office just went down the drain. I'll get there, I swear!

-Elisheva

So did you survive my review?

Just an update. I've been putting shirt blurbs on my Facebook site. Figured that most of what I was seeing there was regurgitated material that people forward and family scrapbooks with an occasional infomercial and blogs about personal depression and hemorrhoids.

Fresh material...I can do that. After all, I'm a writer, right?

So I started giving updates about my autistic son. Then I started pointing out landmarks on the Ohio turnpike.  The writers conference told me to pick one source of media and do it well. So I don't post a lot of family photos. I try to skip forwarded material. Notable exceptions are things that make me laugh, geek moments, and pictures of things or places I want in my books.

Today, for the first time, someone friended me who I don't know. She is a friend of C's teacher from last year. I don't know what to think of this, except to say that I think what I am writing is of value to someone who is a stranger. Does that mean it has more value? Dunno. However, I think this is a milestone.

(Pats self on back)

Amy, you sometimes reply that I think outside your box.  Let's see if I can show you part of mine.

In theater and cinema, the term 'blocking' refers to working out the movement of actors on stage or before the camera, and for cinema, the exact arrangement of shots.  (The scriptwriter will indicate Closeup on Cassius, Wide on Caesar, and sometimes there will be additional notes like Scars visible; but the actual blocking of shots is done by the director, who has a lot of work to do before the shoot.)

Many of my comments have to do with movement and action.  Unless the action is pulling me furiously, I construct the scene in my mind when I read.  Not always in the same detail, but enough to catch many oddities, and those make me look closer to see if I've misread.

On words like 'multiple': I don't read aloud to myself or move my lips when I read, but I do recall the sound-colors and sound-shapes of the words.  Small articles and very common words like 'for', 'to' (when used for the infinitive), and 'of' glide by almost unheard and copulas get only weak notice.

So the sounds and cadences of words matter, even though I read silently.  Somewhere, probably in Manchester's The Last Lion, I read of Churchill being told that to call a policy "both obsolete and reprehensible" (as he had) was meaningless.  It's not, but Churchill's reply was interesting.  He said (paraphrased) 'Listen to the B's'.

The two adjectives are linked by the 'B's and 'P's, labial stops that are sounded hard in those words.  When I hear or read a word like 'multiple' or 'rebarbative' I hear repeated hard-sounded stops.

When a native English speaker (who does not also speak Russian) hears Russian, he hears a multi-car pileup of guttural stops and fricatives.  That's an extreme example, but even in listening to English we pick out the pulse and flow of sound and shape our sense of meaning around it.  Is 'awkward' onomatopoeia?  Not by the standard definition, yet the word does picture the meaning.

That covers all but a handful of comments in my last review.  The others have to do with mental state, and I can't put my reading of moods on the same firm ground as the other comments.

Try declaiming this (from The Pilgrim's Regress):

Behemoth is my serving man.
Before the conquered hosts of Pan
Riding tamed Leviathan
Loud I sing, for well I can:
Resurgem and IO PAEAN!  IO IO IO PAEAN!
Now I know the stake I played for.
Now I know what a worm's made for!