Subject: Well...
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Posted on: 2014-01-24 02:38:00 UTC
That does sound somewhat confusing. Oh, well. More things to puzzle over for hours on end!
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Any Bartimaeous trilogy/quadrilogy fans? by
on 2014-01-16 03:04:00 UTC
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Forgive me for not knowing many of your personal fandoms, but I was new for a short while before being gone for a long while. Does anyone here like The Bartimaeous Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, and want to have a polite conversation/chaotic debate about it?
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Sweet Nostalgia! by
on 2014-01-25 05:39:00 UTC
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I used to love that series. Haven't read it recently.
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Drops in by
on 2014-01-18 03:44:00 UTC
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Hey, I remember that series! I've read all four, but it's been a while on the first one.
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...I'm afraid I read it long enough ago that... by
on 2014-01-16 19:39:00 UTC
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...I don't remember very much of it. I do remember liking it, though!
Also, hi! Welcome back :) Here, have a bleepolate chip cookie--the recipe's a little experimental still, I'm afraid, but it's mostly coming out in the color of the cookie dough, and seems harmless. Well, harmless in the sense that your hair may change color briefly...don't eat it before you have to go somewhere colored hair is unacceptable.
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Thanks! by
on 2014-01-16 21:26:00 UTC
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Thank you! I will make sure to take the necessary precautions upon consumption.
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I've read the trilogy by
on 2014-01-16 08:36:00 UTC
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It's some years back now, but it's funny, I actually have Ring of Solomon lined up to read in the near future (as an audiobook).
I remember being awfully sad about the ending of the trilogy. -
*waves* by
on 2014-01-16 06:55:00 UTC
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Oh, I loved them! Especially the third book; I cried so hard at the end. Haven't reread in awhile, though, so some of this conversation might go ever my head.
-Aila -
*waves back* by
on 2014-01-16 21:30:00 UTC
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Due to a momentary lack of forethought, this message was created solely to perform a waving gesture, as per the customary etiquette.
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*attempts to wave frantically back* by
on 2014-01-16 23:01:00 UTC
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The-- customary-- etiquette-- is-- unnecessary-- just-- pull me out-- of this-- bottomless-- pit before-- my foot-- slips-- and I-- fall-- out into the-- fathomless-- void--
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*throws bungee cord* by
on 2014-01-24 02:36:00 UTC
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Your attempt to wave back, however polite, may also be seen as unnecessary, but no more so than mine!
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I read the Bartimaeous trilogy a while back. by
on 2014-01-16 04:44:00 UTC
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So whatever you have to say, shoot. Unless it's trolling. Or miming.
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One question by
on 2014-01-16 21:38:00 UTC
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Since the series itself is a sort of alternate universe for the real world, would that mean that everything (person, country, etc.) would exist, except for events that happened to them and the actions they perform would be extremely different? Because up until recent years in the timeline, history does not seem to be drastically warped, just changed to a degree.
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To clarify Desdenelle's point by
on 2014-01-18 03:47:00 UTC
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They have had some of the same political figures, in roughly analogous positions, such as Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BenjaminDisraeli
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilliamEwartGladstone">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilliamEwart_Gladstone -
Hm... by
on 2014-01-17 10:59:00 UTC
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I don't have a concrete answer, but my guy feeling is that an AU means 'everything's the same except what's changed'. Which stinks of tautology.