The Sorcerer's Progress (Page 27 of 62)

Sooooo tempting. I'll see what I can do. Maybe there is a continuing ed thing that I can get to in that area.

Holy cow Ames ... are you serious?! You know I will come and visit you wherever you are and at least once before I even think about going back home ... But if it's a good thing for you and your career and the family ... consider it, for sure!

We're having another 'meeting' at work about keeping our team in place. I'm starting to make plans to decide how I can possibly stay at my present job and do all the work of 7 people by myself.

Show me the money, Promedica. Show me the money.

I mean to build up Kirsey and the sorcerers he's trained.  Then I mean to show the limits to that kind of power.  (You've already seen previews.  Uemiska's skill at debate is another kind of power.)

FYI, I have a few titles for books late in the story.  If I can get that far, the last three are Dies Irae, Dies Illa, and Riot and Rest.  (The last comes from "It may be we are meant to mark with our riot and our rest ...".)

There's a mystery I've hinted at and some of you have half-caught it.  The book where that comes will probably be titled The Gate of Broken Seals.  ("In the Gate of Treason, in the gate of broken seals,/'Bend and bind them, bend and bind them, bend and bind them into wheels./Then once more in all my garden there may swing and sound and sweep/The noise of all the sleepless things that sing the soul to sleep.' "  Wonderful and terrible to declaim, and you can find the source easily enough.)

There's another theme to add, if you like: For the end of the world was long ago, And all we dwell to-day/As children of some second birth, Like a strange people left on earth/After a judgment day..

Edits made.  They don't completely answer the reviews, but it may be a little better.

If someone really wants a repub I'll do it.

There will be more to come.

Reaalized I was changing the geometry/geography of that mountain, so I've gone back to B1 =Fire and Water= to review it.  That peak is an igneous intrusion, plutonic, of granite or granite-like material.  Not mafic, I think.  I'm not sure what's in the hot chamber beneath.

Seriously, you guys are the reason I've gotten back into the habit of watching documentaries on random subjects.

-Elisheva

Yee-Haw for Wikipedia!

Yes, but can you draw a Free Body Diagram?

free body diagram? I only went as far as basic physics. Like figuring out the orbits of the planets and the formula that is used to know there has to be a planet somewhere near pluto.

The rest of my astronomy is from watching PBS. Hey, it let me convince one of the writers that two moon orbiting the same planet couldn't be at different phases. Took me a while, but they finally got the visual and why their scenic moons weren't possible.

Oh.  You can see it, you can copy it.  I don't plan on wiping it.

Okay, I've got two scenes from Kirsey and Melayne in Sgolyabank (the lurymant world).

Elisheva, you won't like it, so let me say these dragons are not your dragons.  These dragons are in quote marks and you'll get a better picture of them from reading Book 1, Chapter 34 (Rite of Return).  The dragons are only a small part of the story there, but they are a major danger.