Haha, I'm not saying it doesn't make sense, Just that my brain kept going "wait...what?" when I tried to read it. I shall give it a better shot when I feel able to cope with complex thought again.

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LOL, crazy. I can't make heads or tails of it. Also, I thought you'd posted it in the hall, so I worried I was going mad when I couldn't find it or my comment about it. Congrats.

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Just a bit more...

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Well, busy on the final Rose of the Prophet book, The Prophet of Ahkran . One thing that really stood out to me from this series was the inclusion of a clearly gay / bisexual main character, which considering these were written by a couple of Mormon's in the 80's was probably pretty ground-breaking....

It was a brave move by South Africa to bring this case, absolutely guaranteed to win them no friends in either the UK or US, and any person with a shred of humanity who has been watching this tragedy unfold will recognise it as such. Nothing will ever bring back those lost on either side, and the i...

Likewise, I pretty much agree with what you said above there. :D I must just add though that by legal definition, "genocidal actions" can be carried out against portions of populations, and that I do not think it a stretch too far to consider Israel's actions against the Palestinians in Ga...

Something I've been thinking a lot about lately but only barely touch on in the paper I published is that everything is as real as it needs to be in that framework. Whatever you believe to be true is true, within boundaries to be established by experiment and experience. Also, Is that thing you jus...

Apparently the veterinarians association had previously determined that nitrogen was too inhumane to be used in the euthanasia of animals...and it took 22 minutes for him to die... --- In other news, I watched the ICJ judgement on the SA v Israel genocide case, and glad as I was to see that the ICJ ...

[Syl] wrote: ↑ You'll never entirely get rid of me.

I should hope not...

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What was the condition for letting Morn go that Nick imposed on her once she awoke from her "catatonia" on the way to Billingsgate?

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16?

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..and the nation formed in response to that most awful of crimes against humanity is itself engaging in behaviour against another group of people that it of all people should understand... I know, right? This has been a source of bafflement to me even before the current conflict...that a people so ...

Maintained? Pfft, things only get better from GoTM. And the only time I don't think DHG is the best book of the series is when I'm reading the next one, Memories of Ice . You'd better hie yourself to the Malazan forum and let us vicariously re-live the pleasure of discovering them for the first time...

Or I could but it's too much work...unless somebody wants to give me the link to the thread where they should have gone...

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Not for nothing has it been termed "the first live-streamed genocide."

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Book 2, Paladin of the Night.

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I think I may take a re-read of one of my favourite old fantasy series, Weiss & Hickmann's "Rose of the Prophet." Starting with Vol 1, The Will of the Wanderer.

(I've always loved the (heavily DND inspired) religious system in it.)

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Personally, I've always found mushrooms sovereign (haha) for clearing the head. Not so much their gathering of course, but surely he wouldn't be wasting them either...

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Well, definitely recommended. (And I loved Much Ado......My grandmother dragged a very reluctant young me to go and watch it, and I ended up laughing my ass off. )

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Well, I must say that I did find our case rather compelling, although I was surprised that it was us who brought it. Of course, it is an election year and the ruling party has slipped significantly, although nowhere near decisively, in the poll estimates, so boosting the image etc. can only be a goo...