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And now for something completely different...
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:37 pm
by Luke The Unbeliever
Okay, I'm just starting this thread for fun...
I thought it'd be fun if we could think of small observations about The Chrons that...well that we could make fun of or laugh about.
For instance:
Anyone ever notice that NO ONE in The Land (outisders included) EVER has to "go" to the restroom? I mean SRD describes what appears to be bathrooms but only wash basins seem to be present, but he never even mentions if Revelstone has a giant-wrought outhouse or anything like that.
Wouldn't it really change some of the scenes if Covenant tells Bannor he needs to "go" and Bannor lets it slip that the Bloodguard don't do that either? Now there's a chance for some comic relief right there.
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:41 pm
by dlbpharmd
Anyone ever notice that NO ONE in The Land (outisders included) EVER has to "go" to the restroom? I mean SRD describes what appears to be bathrooms but only wash basins seem to be present, but he never even mentions if Revelstone has a giant-wrought outhouse or anything like that.
The first toilet is mentioned in ROTE.
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:54 pm
by Luke The Unbeliever
Really!?
I never noticed...well, I give up.
Anybody else got something?
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:44 pm
by kevinswatch
Yeah, care of my brilliant dissection of Part 1, Ch. 5 of Runes:
Me wrote:A clay pipe angled down into the floor answered other needs.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
My eyes!
I'm blindeded!
-jay
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:08 am
by emotional leper
kevinswatch wrote:Yeah, care of my brilliant dissection of Part 1, Ch. 5 of Runes:
Me wrote:A clay pipe angled down into the floor answered other needs.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
My eyes!
I'm blindeded!
-jay
Obviously you've never been to an 'Outdoor Recreational Therapy Institution.'
Also known as a work camp for crazies.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:11 pm
by Kerb
I wonder what the Lords did at Revelstone? Chuck contents of chamberpot over the side?
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:47 pm
by emotional leper
Kerb wrote:I wonder what the Lords did at Revelstone? Chuck contents of chamberpot over the side?
The solution probably involved graveling.
Or composting.
Night soil is okay fertiliser, if you can steralise it.
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:00 am
by King Elessar 8
dlbpharmd wrote:Anyone ever notice that NO ONE in The Land (outisders included) EVER has to "go" to the restroom? I mean SRD describes what appears to be bathrooms but only wash basins seem to be present, but he never even mentions if Revelstone has a giant-wrought outhouse or anything like that.
The first toilet is mentioned in ROTE.
Yeah, I noticed this on the second reading. Made me laugh.
One thing about the series (esepcially the firs chronicles) that always struck me is how incurious the people of the Land seem to be about Covenant's world. I mean, he is from a completely different dimension/universe - which you might think would be completely fascinating to learn about for most people - but I think the only person who ever asks him anything about it is Mhoram (Foamfollwer asks Covenant a bit about his personal life). Pretty much no one ever says "So, what exactly
is leprosy anyway?"
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:11 am
by amanibhavam
King Elessar 8 wrote:dlbpharmd wrote:Anyone ever notice that NO ONE in The Land (outisders included) EVER has to "go" to the restroom? I mean SRD describes what appears to be bathrooms but only wash basins seem to be present, but he never even mentions if Revelstone has a giant-wrought outhouse or anything like that.
The first toilet is mentioned in ROTE.
Yeah, I noticed this on the second reading. Made me laugh.
One thing about the series (esepcially the firs chronicles) that always struck me is how incurious the people of the Land seem to be about Covenant's world. I mean, he is from a completely different dimension/universe - which you might think would be completely fascinating to learn about for most people - but I think the only person who ever asks him anything about it is Mhoram (Foamfollwer asks Covenant a bit about his personal life). Pretty much no one ever says "So, what exactly
is leprosy anyway?"
Maybe because it _is_ Covenant's dream/extrapolation of his psyche after all and all the others only say what he wants them to say... which reminds me of a very old joke, in which a woman is sleeping and dreaming of a big black guy chasing her through the rooms of her house with a big knife in his hand, and woman keeps screamimg "Stop! Leave me alone!" to which the guy replies "Me? It is you who is dreaming me, not the other way around!"