Steve
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Well I just joined. I liked your answer on Freud, and actually I had a valid reason for asking. It was and IS my life experience, that made me agree with your answer. Now how did analyze the blank slate?
Lois McMaster Bujold
When a query looks a bit odd, a check of the poster's page shows their stats. If they have more books than friends, I figure they are here on GR for the right reasons. Granted that's not a good proxy when a person has just joined.
I don't auger down any more than that, because I am not here to vet people. Or be responsible for them in any other way, by preference. (I have to overcome decades of parental and placation reflexes for that, a work in progress.)
Freud seems to be the psychology equivalent of the phlogiston theory: seemed logical in its day, spawned lingering metaphors, obsoleted by further data.
Ta, L.
When a query looks a bit odd, a check of the poster's page shows their stats. If they have more books than friends, I figure they are here on GR for the right reasons. Granted that's not a good proxy when a person has just joined.
I don't auger down any more than that, because I am not here to vet people. Or be responsible for them in any other way, by preference. (I have to overcome decades of parental and placation reflexes for that, a work in progress.)
Freud seems to be the psychology equivalent of the phlogiston theory: seemed logical in its day, spawned lingering metaphors, obsoleted by further data.
Ta, L.
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Jane Curry
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I have just finished "The Knife Children" and enjoyed it immensely but had hoped for an update on Dag and Fawn (and the whole Clearwater crew). Any chance of a further work with them as a focus? I would think there's lots of room to expand on the state of the new shields and their uptake, not to mention second generation doings. This whole series is one of my go to comfort reads for too many reasons to name.
Seantheaussie
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
While reading "The Lies of Locke Lamora" I came across a section with the upper class in danger. I was instantly reminded of a passage that I loved where the upper class reacted bravely and magnificently to danger. I am 90% sure you wrote it. Are you able to tell me approximately what section, of which of my Vorkosigan books I may find it? Thanks.
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