Another potentially valuable site: www.iohai.com .
John Boyd, 'the fighter pilot who changed the art of war', quietly eclipsed both von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu. He distilled his life's work into a set of briefings, which may occupy military theorists for the next century--or two. It was his habit to give them himself, but they have survived him, and can be found on the site above.
Symmetry
First rule of writing an Epic:
Never define your story as Epic. Always let someone else do that for you!
Right. You let your editor and book designer or cover artist do it for you!
Anant the review: my tongue is definitely inside *my own* cheek!
Two or three days for Matthew without Catherine, and Catherine without Matthew? They'll be like springs bent to the breaking point. But that's what you planned, isn't it, you cruel author?
By all men bond to nothing/Being slaves without a lord,/By one blind idiot world obeyed,/Too blind to be abhorred.
Bond, James Bond.
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, or mineral / I am the very model of a modern Major General!
Good points. Yes, I've assumed that Peter as the most workable motive--gain. But what about revenge? Who would go this far and endanger this many people for revenge? Of course, it's always good to have your reader fixated in the wrong direction.
How about 'New Chapters' with a tag of some sort for the first chapter posted (eg. 'New Book')?
Quirksome
C'lyde
I'm not so sure I caught one as had a few rammed into my arms.
The steward won't be able to take Matthew's place. Also, he's got to stay close enough to the castle that he can't be off arranging things. Peter is a far better suspect in every way.
The sidewall plays a part, but not that part. Remember, its strength is in tension.
Rotary plows--with tire chains.
Interesting thoughts that made my head hurt. This must mean I learned something.
No. It means you're on the verge of learning.
Think about the tire when the car is on a lift and there's no contact with the ground. Account for all the forces. Then let the car down to the ground at watch what happens.
Note to the people who clutch their heads and say "I can't do this!"--that's how you feel at the brink of the breakthrough.
I suspect that's the result of multiple snowfalls, perhaps daily falls of half an inch to seven or eight inches. The walls of the snowpiles around the road look to be about 18 feet high, but the snow beyond seems to be maybe ten feet deep.
But imagine what four days of real warmth, with a few inches of rain, will do to that road. And the subsequent freeze may require clearing by jackhammer.
Note also that the material of a tire is essentially a tension material. The tread of the tire is in compression, but as a compression member it is far too short to buckle, being wider than its length (thickness) in compression. But if you put the wall of a tire in compression along the surface of the notional membrane, the wall will buckle. And if it didn't, the tire wouldn't work the way it does.
Finally, remember that in stasis all the forces must balance, at every point.
W'all Street
You missed one.
I've officially decided that nobody/nowhere can shoot nobody no-how, not for the rest of the year.
Picaboo?
Ewe Street?
Because of the physics of a gas. One of its basic properties is that in the absence of acceleration, movement within it, etc., it distributes evenly within the enclosing volume and has everywhere the same pressure. (Note that I stated that the differences in altitude between top and bottom of the tire are negligible beyond negligible.)
I will add at this point that the tire's construction involves a flexible but almost inelastic layer of fabric 'plies' embedded in a tough and elastic rubber, as well as a strong wire loop called the 'bead' that reinforces the tire's openings where those openings rest in the wheel.
Eye Street
