Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (Page 9 of 77)

Need a new keyboard after reading this while taking a sip of juice ...

Yeah ... but it was funny.

Aside: what sort of project could put Brian Eno and Jeff Bezos on one team?  Google 'clock long now'.

He's got the right time period amy!  We're in 1593, and during the later half of the century, ruffs were really the rage!  Except on the border where some would say things were slow to happen, although in reality, they didn't have time for all kinds of shit.  I don't mention it specifically to avoid confusion with the general perception of what neck ruffs looked like, namely the spectacular pieces Old Lizzie used to wear.  As on the border, it was much more subdued, more collar like.

But either way, Johnny would be unmercifully mocked if he rocks up with a tutu and I won't be surprised if every single person he encounters tries to yank it up (HARD) to get it around his neck again .....  *kisses and hugs - this is specially for the guys*

I love it!  Amy's nailed it - whimsical.  Can only imagine the crowds when the century hand moves a click, can't imagine what it would look like when the cuckoo gets to fly (sort of)!

I want it to look like the celetial clock from Dark Crystal.  That would be whimsy

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I'm sure it is a work of art. Pity it's in the middle of nowhere where few will see it

I wonder if the 'Life the Universe and Everything' book as the same color scheme as the Simpson's artwork.  I'm never going to look at your cover the same way again.  Hey, I just noticed...the space station isn't doing a rotation around the sun every five seconds anymore.  Is this a site issue or did the thing finallly crash?

I first thought it was a moon.  Then I thought it was part of a planetary ring because it was moving by so fast.  Then I found out it was a satellite built by Kajo the magnificent during his free time in between using the bathroom and taking a walk in the park.  Since it was making a full orbit in less than five seconds, it apparently flung everyone off the station so no one was left to steer.  Ergo, it must have crashed.

(High-fives self at the impeccable logic then realizes that a satellite qualifies as a rock and this might be a problem when flung at the atmosphere from space)

Last comment, then I'm going to snore like Alda.  hehehe

Honest, this is true, I wondered what is so magnificent if one builds a satellite that needs to be manned/steered ....  Clearly, I've (once again) completely forgotten about K's tendency to eliminate wanted and unwanted characters.  My bad.

Turning away from the questions can also mean misdirection.  If a fact continues and pushes through the Veil, then it needs to be known.  Think of it as a library full of facts and old books.  Sometimes, a piece of information is written in bold xtra large print, is left open on a table, has an audio book hooked to that page and the volume turned up.  Somebody is bound to notice.

But the Veil has been astablished, or is being established.  Alda's change of character are being established as a side-efffect of her Conduicy.

You can't have a serious story in which solids pass through solids--except that in Time Enough for Love one of the characters sets a glass down on a table and it disappears.  Dora the spaceship makes the excuse that the glass was set on one of her 'take-away spots'.

The point is that you can do anything if you provide the reason.  In Ellery Queen's Double, Double a character's declaration that he could not provide as he'd hoped for his bride takes on a new significance when we know the whole story.  In that case, it's a clue.  And in John Dickson Carr's The Cavelier's Cup a character's reticence about his youthful enthusiasms becomes part of the web of evidence.

What's to the right of leap, off the chart? Then go a little bit more to the right. That's where I am, and I've been given a clue. The clue in itself will also feature around there.

I hope this is where njc was aiming at, otherwise I'll have to give him amy's wine as well to make up for what I've just done. But the whooshing sound going over my head is making me do it!