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p. 59/735, du BeQ: "... ne veulent pas de mulâtres parmi eux."

Georges: phys. == Harry Potter
mental. == Hermione Granger

". Adieu, Brest ! Salut, Nantes ! Salut,
Bayonne ! Adieu, France !"

chapter 8: Yay... Rin goes Lore!

chapter 5: exactly: misery is better when self-chosen, with a purpose, just as Viktor Frankl said. One can endure almost anything, finding a how, if there is a compelling why...

ch 2: 'meritocracy ... your very presence offends them...' -I've been there.

multi-story buildings as a new concept is, in fact, a new concept...

Impressively shocking: cheaper to kill than to injure...

c'est pas vrai !

" ...Pétersbourg, comme à Madrid, on dort généralement après le dîner : c’est qu’en effet il y a deux mois pendant lesquels il fait plus chaud en Russie qu’en Espagne."

interessant...

never take insult (and demand satisfaction, ie, a duel) with a stranger until you know what his profession is...

Nice comparison (hidden, but open) to the Via Appia...

...1825...

I love the way she has transposed The Four Noble Truths with The Four Noble Subjects...

Good idea, using the rotary presses that were not being used during the war because of dropping production of consumer goods.

36 years. It's hard to know what she should have done because she didn't have all the information at her disposal when she made either of those decisions. Certain death for both worlds, when maybe they would have been civilized, and at the very least it was only the death of one world? And then later the rule of law over a bunch of fanatics. How could she have known that would have made the difference between life,

Van Gogh's painting Starry Night refers to string theory? That's not possible.

The Trisolarans know about the 2-d weapon...

Essentially, humanity is saved by two people with the ability to invent stories, and thus to live in his head, as the first Sword Holder did, or present the stories as hidden information, as the first human being to live among aliens did. Both of storytellers and those stories were crucial. Not in themselves, but in the ability to persevere in isolation.

Of 719: while I suppose that inheriting some of your parents' memories gives you an evolutionary advantage, I would never want to have any of the memories of either of my parents.

The Droplet attacks on the electricity infrastructure in Australia are another reason that local heat and power combined, or local power generation, along with pedal Power in each home are so important.

Of 719: if they know how to prevent an attack by making this declaration of safety, either they only just figured it out recently and it's a result of extremely high technology, or there is some reason it would be a threat to them. Because humanity becoming agricultural if that's it, would be absolutely no threat to the few of Trisolaris who've escaped. Probably involves reducing themselves down a degree but that'

Of 719: with their Planet gone, why does Trisolaris refuse to tell Earth about the origin of the threat of the Dark Forest? It must be some other reason that they want to continue to keep humanity and ignorance even though they're survivors ah, to protect the survivors probably.

I guess there are always and always have been conspiracy theories, particularly when it's about something people just don't want to believe and of course blame will always be assigned to any and every convenient subject person or people. And of course human beings bring hypocritical and blaming the messenger has always been a popular tradition unfortunately. Good thing Luo acted based on his own convictions and igno

Of 719: how hypocritical people can be. Telling her that The Gravity had succeeded where she had failed, when immediately after she took over the position, the first Sword Holder gets taken to court for doing what needed to be done in order to set up this Dissuasion in the first place, and he checked carefully to be sure that there was no life on any of those planets. If she had pushed the button at that point they w

Right back to the nuclear triad, particularly the submarine fleet, sorry and the nuclear ballistic missile submarine fleet. All of the strategy comes from the Cold War here, including the whole long and debated question about whether a woman would push the button, which of course we know is a straw man argument because clearly plenty of women would do so .

Interesting how they picked a model from imperial Japan, but female, to be there intermediary. Both oppressor, and yet still representative of more than half of the human population, and with very cultured manners, but still sending a very terrifying message. Why on Earth anyone think they have our best interest in mind?

Of 719: Influencing the enemy is a cunning use of soft power, and sending films made in human fashion is only a way to check the accuracy of the films, which are basically the same thing as reading a novel set in the place you're going to visit:
Learn all about them,
travel the galaxy,
meet interesting beings,
and kill them.

161/719: I'm not sure I'd want my culture to be that heavily influenced by a group absolutely committed to the destruction of my civilization.

Of 719: I completely missed this the first time I read this book, where the guy who bought the star is refusing to take the Oath , because he says they might be better than us , and in that case my allegiance will not be to the human race because I have no good memories of childhood, no happiness, and this guy wasn't sexually abused as a kid so how much more alienated will many other people be from the human race?

105/719, version Acts Sud, de la BAnQ: contexte de citation sur l'amour de l'humanité, c'est que l'homme avait une famille...