• Re: Highlights and Lowlights - March 2024

    From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Apr 2 03:04:09 2024
    In article <uufpbo$2q912$[email protected]>,
    Tony Nance <[email protected]> wrote:
    Now Reading:
    Long work - The Hero and the Crown - McKinley
    Collection - Med Ship - Leinster


    Chee!
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  • From Don@21:1/5 to Tony Nance on Wed Apr 3 02:18:23 2024
    Tony Nance wrote:
    Ted Nolan wrote:
    Tony Nance wrote:
    Now Reading:
    Long work - The Hero and the Crown - McKinley
    Collection - Med Ship - Leinster


    Chee!

    Ah, Murgatroyd - here, have some coffee.

    I am very much enjoying Leinster's Med Ship stories.

    This thread inspired me listen to an audiobook adaptation of _Med Ship_
    during this evening's dog walk. (<https://crcomp.net/epubtomp3/index.php>
    shows how to create an audiobook in Calibre.)
    _Med Ship_ finally hits the spot after a recent string of audiobook
    flops, following on the heels of the fabulous _Citizen of the Galaxy_.
    The first Leinster story reminds me of Perry Rhodan's Liquitiv arc: <https://www-perrypedia-de.translate.goog/wiki/Liquitiv?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de>
    right down to the triple asterisks ahead of the afterword. The Liquitiv
    arc also adds Noir and Police Procedural elements.

    Danke,

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    tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.

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  • From Don@21:1/5 to Tony Nance on Wed Apr 3 12:26:34 2024
    Tony Nance wrote:
    Ted Nolan wrote:
    Tony Nance wrote:
    Now Reading:
    Long work - The Hero and the Crown - McKinley
    Collection - Med Ship - Leinster


    Chee!

    Ah, Murgatroyd - here, have some coffee.

    I am very much enjoying Leinster's Med Ship stories.

    This thread inspired me listen to an audiobook adaptation of _Med Ship_
    during this evening's dog walk. (<https://crcomp.net/epubtomp3/index.php>
    shows how to create an audiobook in Calibre.)
    _Med Ship_ finally hits the spot after a recent string of audiobook
    flops, following on the heels of the fabulous _Citizen of the Galaxy_.
    The first Leinster story reminds me of Perry Rhodan's Liquitiv arc: <https://www-perrypedia-de.translate.goog/wiki/Liquitiv?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de>
    right down to the triple asterisks ahead of the afterword. The Liquitiv
    arc also adds Noir and Police Procedural elements.

    Addendum:

    Part of my past Lenten observance included a daily reading from the
    rather dour Book of Ecclesiastes. Easter was then celebrated with a
    turn towards Tobit and its theme of medical arts - a serendipitous
    change of course in light of this very thread.

    One more thing. Here's a handy cognitive excercise to strengthen
    proficiency at discerning embedded narratives, be they in corporate
    media, AI, or anything else:

    [T]he stories with which we fill our imaginations shape
    our souls as well as our actions in the world. ...

    In my undergraduate and graduate courses in medieval
    history and the history of Christianity, my methodology
    is the same, if less explicit: to think ourselves inside
    the frame(s) from within which our sources were written
    so as to attempt to understand why their authors made
    the arguments that they did in the way that they did
    and thereby become aware of the limitations of our own
    frames.

    <https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/Rachel-Fulton-Brown>

    Danke,

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    tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.

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