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The Hobbit Hole XXXI - Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today!
http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ ^ | Sept 7 2006

Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today!

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

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To: RosieCotton
Ummm ... you're nicer people than I am ...

Official NaNoWriMo 2006 Participant
3,981 posted on 10/29/2006 4:33:33 PM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [ ... NaNoWriMo! What's YOUR plot? ... ])
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To: Rose in RoseBear

Heh...


3,982 posted on 10/29/2006 4:45:33 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: Rose in RoseBear

So...what *is* your plot?

I'm cheating, personally.

I figure I've already proved I can do this, so...it's OK.


3,983 posted on 10/29/2006 4:46:10 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: Rose in RoseBear

Yah. Maybe its like I see a certain boss at work, too... he's a very intense person and being in the room with him for any amount of time is just exhausting. His cell structure is just moving faster than anything in the room, and it can only be because he's sucking life energy out of the people nearby and expending it.

But he's rarely actually wrong. I don't know how he does it, and I woudn't mind having a little of that from time to time. But I couldn't live like that.


3,984 posted on 10/29/2006 4:49:38 PM PST by Ramius
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To: Rose in RoseBear

Wheee, NaNo. Can't wait.


3,985 posted on 10/29/2006 5:22:51 PM PST by JenB
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To: RosieCotton
I'm writing science fiction this year. It's kind of a backstory to the first novel in my science-fiction opus, A Campaign In The Life ...

In Campaign, the main hero, Treval, the Flight Captain of the Colonial Capital Ship Solaria, meets and falls in love with Doctor Shayma, who winds up being Solaria's Master Analyst. Other subplots include the mental breakdown of Treval's dear friend and wingman, Moonblaster, and the multiple attempts on the life of Admiral Tregennet, the commander of Solaria's Fleet.

In The Gift Of Sight, I look at the backstory of Campaign. Gift follows five women: Shayma, Treval's sister Leerith (who's married to Moonblaster), Treval's niece (and Moonblaster's daughter) Patrinne, Solaria's Master Healer Tamarind, and Siress Tarrilla, the newest of Tregennet's twelve wives. They all see things --- in themselves, in their loved ones, in their lives --- that they'd not seen before, that they needed (or didn't need) to see, that they're either glad or sorry to have seen. I write it all down.

<smiling> It's good to summarize it all in that way! Thanks for asking, and for making me squish it all down that way!

3,986 posted on 10/29/2006 5:35:44 PM PST by Rose in RoseBear ([NaNoWriMo! Sometimes, the gift isn't the ability to see, but the ability to close your eyes ...])
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To: RosieCotton

Wow, this homeschooling thread I'm on won't die. Someone is being denser than whatsername Lauralee the "what do people who don't live in NYC do" chick.


3,987 posted on 10/29/2006 5:44:38 PM PST by JenB
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To: Rose in RoseBear

Ok...I think I need to draw a diagram, but I've got the gist of it. ;-)

Sounds like it would qualify as space opera, no? Kinda?

I still don't quite understand some of the ways sci-fi gets divided up.


3,988 posted on 10/29/2006 5:55:18 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: JenB
...Heh...I note the grenade I tossed you got 'sploded. ;-)
3,989 posted on 10/29/2006 5:57:29 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton
....sshhh.... yeah, didn't want to drag you into it but....
3,990 posted on 10/29/2006 5:58:15 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
Thanks...'ppreciate it.

... I'm OK watchin' invisibly from back here...

3,991 posted on 10/29/2006 5:59:12 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

Well, I do that sometimes on your he-man wimmin-hater threads so turnabout is fair play and all.

I've been relaying some of the choicer bits to Talon. He's amused.


3,992 posted on 10/29/2006 6:00:45 PM PST by JenB
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To: HairOfTheDog

I'm 54, wife 50. We've been married for 28 years.

And "connected" five times in the last 24 hours.

Folks, it gets better with time!


3,993 posted on 10/29/2006 6:47:11 PM PST by TomSmedley (Calvinist, optimist, home schooling dad, exuberant husband, technical writer)
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To: RosieCotton

Must... stop.... worse.... than.... peanuts....


3,994 posted on 10/29/2006 6:48:27 PM PST by JenB
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To: All
To recap:

Smoochmoot Of A Sort. WK isn't a HHD or even a Freeper, but is a sympathizer, and may get sucked into this swirling vortex sometime after the mawwage. There was Scrabble, and Church, and Pizza, and Mall-Walking, and yes, there was smoochery.

Returned by way of Baby Andrew's place. Apparently Baby Andrew is still on the two-and-a-half hour feed'n'change schedule. Apparently he celebrated his fifth morning as a Discrete Entity by shotgunning a substance almost, but not quite entirely, unlike mustard out of his toches. This being a novelty was met with hilarity, but the youngster better put a cork in that sort of business rahther quickly.

3,995 posted on 10/29/2006 6:49:54 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Day 164 (counting up))
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To: TomSmedley

Uh... Hi - Most folks don't give us that much information in the introduction!


3,996 posted on 10/29/2006 6:55:15 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: ExGeeEye

Um, glad you had a good time. Can we ask for a moratorium on baby diaper weather reporting?

You haven't officially proposed yet, have you? I think I would not have missed something that big but my life's been crazy enough lately.


3,997 posted on 10/29/2006 6:56:43 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
Wow, thread has taken an odd turn...
3,998 posted on 10/29/2006 7:12:07 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Treason: giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
So, how about some spam?
3,999 posted on 10/29/2006 7:12:25 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Treason: giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
So, how about some spam?
4,000 posted on 10/29/2006 7:12:29 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Treason: giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war)
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