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It might just be me but I feel like half the time the characters' expressions do not match what they're saying at all

Now I know that Bloody Stupid Johnson is the king of all engineers. He didn't just estimate π = 3, or even truly believe it. He actually implemented it!

So is the image on the cover the Vavatch Sea or the Glittercliff? Both? Both descriptions match.

Ok friend, how are you going to pull off a long-term impersonation of someone who is known to literally never sleep? That feels rather difficult to fake.

This book has exactly the same opening as Endymion by Dan Simmons

I am so incredibly happy that part is over

"What is that noise? Is that...My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion?"

Luke:

I love the phrase "reclined at table" that's used several times in this book. Makes Jesus seem like such a cool dude. He's not sitting down for dinner, he's reclining at table. 😎

Also I think Luke is my favorite gospel in how everything is presented. Maybe I'm just biased because I like Acts and it's the same author. We'll see if I feel the same after John.

I was gonna say, if you introduce so many names rapid fire like that, it can only mean one thing.

...corpsicle

I have pictured Querl Xoralundra as Captain Gantu from Lilo and Stitch, and this cannot be undone.

Gerontocracy? So a normal government?

Mark:

This book is perfect for my destroyed attention span because there is ZERO filler. Bam, important event, bam, important event, immediately, euthus euthus euthus! Could probably have just been bullet points.

I like how the poet is like "my character might be sleeping well but I don't really know, I'm just the storyteller here"

Is Gawain steadfastly resisting the lady's feminine wiles, or is he just your standard oblivious man?

The Green Knight is very Dorito-shaped

I need to reread this knowing that Gawain is a big, loud, red-headed Scotsman

Hehe I know this Tom

Arthur is so level-headed you could use his face to hang a bookshelf by.

This last book had better be 0.0001 times as good as Ten Thousand Candles in the Wind

This lady who was boiled in a magic kettle for five years, is she the Wife of Bath I've heard so much about? That's a pretty long bath.

Ah, referencing the source material by name I see

"Your dog is a true philosopher" sounds more like a Diogenes quote than a Plato quote.

Justice is, as you know, sometimes spoken of as the virtue of an individual, and sometimes as the virtue of the State.

True.

And is not a State larger than an individual?

It is, unless the individual is your mom!

Would you agree, Polemarchus, that the art of shepherding serves the sheep, the art of piloting serves the sailors, and so forth?

That is reasonable.

And would it follow that the art of payment serves the artist after he has performed his art?

This is inferred from the argument.

So would you agree that Thrasymachus owes me five dollars?

What you say is quite true, Socrates.

Ah yes, proof by "my opponent says 'sure whatever' to anything I say"

Crazy how there is an entire industry devoted to the pursuit of everyone-not-being-eaten-by-one-specific-polar-bear

That mutiny went even worse than I thought it would

These sailors are dead men walking and there is still a third of the book left. I will never look at a citrus fruit the same way ever again. 🍋

Twenty bottles of Mountain Dew on the wall, twenty bottles of Dew...