Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Where There's a Whip There's a WayWhere There's a Whip There's a Way
Where There's a Whip There's a Way
Where There's a Whip There's a WayWe don't want to go to war today, but
The Lord of lash says nay, nay, nay
We're gonna march all day, all day, all day
Where There's a Whip There's a WayWhere There's a Whip There's a Way
Where There's a Whip There's a Way
Where There's a Whip There's a Way
Left, right, left, right, left,
Where There's a Whip There's a Way, left, rightThe crack on the back says we're going to fight
We're going to march all day and night and more
'cause we are the slaves of the dark Lord Zor
Left, right, Left, right, Left, right, Left, right,. . .
Yes I tried to find a wav file for Dan, I really did.
I have a new computer!!!! :) :) :)
Now I just have to figure out how I'm going to transfer all those lovely files over....argh!
Yes - we all turned in early... I am trying to leave my computer for awhile, I have been here all day... just came back to look one more time!
Today, I think my daytime Freeping days ended. Some computer geek turned the agency firewall back on, and guess what the new filter is?
"Political groups."
SIGH
I installed my old HD's when I got my new system.
Left the chat room early because I'm fiddling with the laptop/TV connections. I got them linked but the laptop doesn't "see" the TV. Grrrr....and the customer support site is in circumnavigation mode. Everytime I look for drivers I get kicked out to the main Customer Service page.
Well, last night some of the co-conspirators and I (Jen and ecurbh) had an informal council in our chat room on the Green Dragon format, and we have some ideas on changes that might increase participation, and perhaps the depth and scope of the discussion. Sometimes we can fully discuss the content of an individual chapter within about 20 minutes, and then I look at it and conclude everything has already been said. The thread is either dead by Saturday morning, or it descends into chit chat while we wait for the next chapter.
We think the discussion is stifled by limiting us to only one short chapter at a time... and we lose some of the larger themes that take several chapters to develop, SO, Rather than strict "chapter" discussions, we think it might stimulate more interest to break the book into related "sections", that are one to three chapters in length, but deal with the same events...
For example (from where we have already been), The hobbits' journey from Hobbiton to Crickhollow could have been one discussion (two chapters there)
The Old Forest and Tom Bombadil, (Chapters 6-8) could have been another week's discussion.
Our current discussion covering the events at Bree could be opened up to cover everything that happens in Bree, which takes place over portions of three chapters. Maybe we are boring people by not moving along. I know I had gotten pretty tired of Bombadil after three weeks ;)
The sections from here on out are the important part, I can post some explaination to connect the Bree chapters together when we get this worked out.
I could suggest that we group the journey from here on out like this:
Bree (contained in parts of ch 9-11)
Journey from Bree to the Ford (contained in ch 11-12)
Rivendell (Book 2 - Ch 1-3)
The Ring goes South (3-4)
Moria (4-5)
Lothlorien (6-8)
The Breaking of the Fellowship (9-10)
I don't know about all of you, so I am asking. The other consideration is, that some of us are eager to get through The Two Towers before Christmas! I am sure it could be broken into logical sections also, and then, if the discussion is over within a week on a section, we move on, if not, we delay it until everyone is done.
A lot happens in Rivendell, for example. The council is very important, and only part of it... but a week is also a long time. Well, what do you think?
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