Comments on: The Character’s Complaint http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/28/the-characters-complaint/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 23:50:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: Ialdabaoth http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/28/the-characters-complaint/#comment-48201 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:44:05 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1772#comment-48201 Just because it’s logically impossible, doesn’t mean it’s logically impossible.

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]]> By: Eliezer Yudkowsky http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/28/the-characters-complaint/#comment-48180 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:06:42 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1772#comment-48180 This is why I’ve started putting logical impossibilities into my stories (floor tiled in pentagons, count of objects in Dumbledore’s office changes without any being added or removed) to make sure that I don’t increase their measure by writing them.

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]]> By: Andante http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/28/the-characters-complaint/#comment-48056 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:37:18 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1772#comment-48056 “Any Bronte,” maybe? There were three sisters (Anne, Emily, and Charlotte, pseud. Acton, Ellis, and Currer Bell) and a brilliant brother (Branwell, no pseud. since he was male). I’d also much rather be in their books than be one of them. (*Consumption,* cough cough …)

Nice internal rhymes, and I especially enjoyed the character’s efforts not to tempt the author :)

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]]> By: Vivificient http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/28/the-characters-complaint/#comment-47686 Sun, 30 Mar 2014 05:27:54 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1772#comment-47686 Enjoyed this a lot. I loved some of the jokes and rhymes, like the one with Ender and gender and the one with the libertarian loons. Great stuff!

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]]> By: Eoin http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/28/the-characters-complaint/#comment-47663 Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:40:53 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1772#comment-47663 I like it a lot! I was looking at the Libera Florae only today!

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]]> By: Alicorn http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/28/the-characters-complaint/#comment-47633 Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:37:39 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1772#comment-47633 It’s okay, I took it as it was meant.

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]]> By: ckp http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/28/the-characters-complaint/#comment-47625 Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:55:01 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1772#comment-47625 Syllable count made me stumble a little :c

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]]> By: g http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/28/the-characters-complaint/#comment-47624 Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:54:05 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1772#comment-47624 Magnificent! (But I’m having trouble with the scansion of the big list of authors, and for me the stress in “writer’s block” is definitely on “block” rather than “wri-“.)

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]]> By: Eli http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/28/the-characters-complaint/#comment-47618 Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:39:22 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1772#comment-47618 Why? Why on Earth would you tell Alicorn to stop?

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]]> By: Doug S. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/28/the-characters-complaint/#comment-47614 Sat, 29 Mar 2014 06:54:38 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1772#comment-47614 http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RageAgainstTheAuthor

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