Ilya the Recusant wrote:
> In a not so bright galaxy nowhere near intelligent space, Chucky &
> Janica <janica.hindle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >Once upon a time - for example, Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:15:21 -0500 -
> >there was this guy, or something, called Ilya the Recusant
> ><qin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, and they made us all feel better by saying the
> >following stuff:
> >
> >>>>>>>>But he is no more special than anyone else.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>And yet, he is.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Because he is The Chosen One.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Though not so Chosen. Neville almost became the chosen one.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Chance is a prickly *****.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>And yet, it was Harry.
> >>>>
> >>>>Chance is a prickly *****.
> >>>
> >>>There is no chance here.
> >>
> >>You don't even want to pretend there might be?
> >
> >Ilya, it is a created environment filled with created characters and
> >settings, completely controlled by an outside intelligence. The only
> >chance that might come into it is if Rowling dies halfway through the
> >final book, and Jordan takes over. And the book runs to 3000 pages ten
> >years later and we all get to see what Harry is wearing when he
> >finally gets to ****k Hermione.
> >
> >Apart from that, there's no chance and I don't see the point in
> >pretending there is.
>
> Because you want to be recusant and bend reality to your wishes?
Wow good stuff. Especially helps me understood the parts that I missed
>
> >>However, as I read them, I was of the perception that she structured
> >>the events of the books in such a way as to not make it seem as though
> >>Harry were any more special in any way aside from what was unwillingly
> >>forced upon him.
> >
> >Maybe it's the fact that, apart from Quidditch and parseltongue and
> >the occasional bit of accidental raw power, Harry isn't particularly
> >*good* at magic.
>
> And because dammit all, he's just a kid trying to get by.
>
> He's kinda like Jon - whiny, and a little annoying. Not that I mind.
>
> >>>I don't think the complaint that he can't die yet is valid. Anybody
> >>>with half a brain knows this all along, and knows the excitement lies
> >>>in seeing how he manages *not* to die.
> >>>
> >>>And the stories do tend to follow a pattern. This isn't necessarily a
> >>>good or bad thing. It's just a thing.
> >>
> >>*nod*
> >>
> >>The ways in which he doesn't die aren't of so much interest to me as
> >>the process of discovery that occurs throughout each book about
> >>background details that slowly come into foreground focus, so to
> >>speak.
> >
> >That's good, because if the only interesting thing about a book is
> >finding out how the main character doesn't die, you're actually
> >reading a bit of a lemon.
>
> *shrug*
>
> I like watching the characters interact, even if it is sometimes a
> little cartoonish. But then, as I was crossing an intersection today,
> two young girls, hardly older than 15 pass by, and one is telling the
> other, in a reassuring voice, "I never said you were stupid."
>
> And after the antics of Book 6, which are just excessively silly, that
> wasn't so strange.
>
> >>>>I could just mail you my copy. It's a very small hardcover.
> >>>
> >>>That would be a waste of money that you should rightly be spending on
> >>>beer.
> >>>
> >>>But you're very sweet.
> >>
> >>It's not that expensive. And it's money that I likely wouldn't be
> >>spending on beer (dramatically losing interest in alcohol lately...)
> >
> >Nah, we're going to buy it when it's out in paperback, to complete our
> >highly prized collection of Rowling paperbacks. But thanks anyway.
>
> *nod*
>
> Okay.
>
> >>>>Nothing. I just got caught up in the parenthesis and forgot to
finish
> >>>>the sentence.
> >>>
> >>>You're only human.
> >>
> >>You need to give me a better excuse.
> >
> >Better than that? I just admitted you were the same species as I am,
> >man! What do you want from me? A Lord's kiss?
> >
> >Think again!
>
> Guh.
>
> A lord's kiss.
>
> I wonder where Ygritte picked up that phrase.
>
> >>I have no reason to lie. Conversations with mates have turned to Harry
> >>Potter on a few occasions,
> >
> >My sympathies.
>
> *shrug*
>
> I once recorded the ****fts and directions taken in a conversation in
> the lounge at my programme. It went from Machiavelli to plays,
> masturbation, to feminism, and eventually onto Harry Potter a few
> conversations down the line.
Not suprising. So I will thread drift you. Have you seen Carnivale?
I still wonder about why Adrienne Barbeau passed out. She is part of
Babylon I think. But can people in Babylon faint? OR get sick
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