Let us compare mythologies and movies

[Bêthberry]

In the immortal words of Winston Churchill, "That is a comment up with which I will not put."

[The Sixth Wizard]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

In the immortal words of Winston Churchill, "That is a comment up with which I will not put."

That reference to Winston reminded me of something my father told me... Something along the lines of "the first person to mention Hitler automatically loses the argument".



Oh and I went for "?!" because the mixture of alarm and confusion always triggers something in me.

[Hilde Bracegirdle]

Mythologies = ∞
Movie = *$ & !*

I'd opt for ∞ as I'm in a more laid back frame of mind just now, despite the perpetual motion inherent in it.

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More fun with character mapping. Aiwendel, many thanks for introducing a new host of names to go with some familiar and some not so familiar characters. Solidus (/) and his brother Virgule (\) I imagine would feel right at home among the Noldor, slashing away beneath the Thangordrim....

And as far as lines go, I doubt that Euclid had to stand in one at an amusement park, (were they are seldom completely straight), or traveled along the railroad line, or had to hold the line. But that isn't his fault, now is it? Does ignorance of these things make for purer mathematics?

[Rikae]

~ I have to second Fordim's vote for "~"
It is graceful and balanced, having a delicate radial symmetry and the continuously but gently shifting directions that Burke used to define the beautiful (as opposed to the sublime, which is better represented by %$$^$%).
It diplomatically offers the possibility that there may be more to be said, but does not interrogate like "?", or tease the reader like the evasive "...", and it sets off the text in a decorative and artistic fashion ~

[alatar]

Originally Posted by Rikae

~ I have to second Fordim's vote for "~"
It is graceful and balanced, having a delicate radial symmetry and the continuously but gently shifting directions that Burke used to define the beautiful (as opposed to the sublime, which is better represented by %$$^$%).
It diplomatically offers the possibility that there may be more to be said, but does not interrogate like "?", or tease the reader like the evasive "...", and it sets off the text in a decorative and artistic fashion ~

Are you serious?!?! Have you considered the far-reaching implications of such a choice? Sure, it looks pretty, but it oscillates up and down, and as soon as it breaks free from the delicate bounds of that radial symmetry, then what? What will that wildly vibrating tilda do when it grows up and looks to walk beyond the asymptotic fences that keep us all safe? And the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics practically guarantees that this will happen.

Wild speculation? I typed ~ into Google and nothing happened. Nothing! I almost typed ~~, but thankfully did not - we all may not be here if I did.

I hope that you reconsider your choice.

[Thenamir]

Is that your final statement?

Maybe?

I am glad to see that the "?" is leading the poll.

[Firefoot]

?!

^My reaction to this thread...

It's much more interesting than a plain ? - it implies more emotion, whether excitement, shock, outrage, a new breakthrough...

Although personally, I think it is aesthetically more pleasing written as "!?".

[Rikae]

Originally Posted by alatar

Are you serious?!?! Have you considered the far-reaching implications of such a choice? Sure, it looks pretty, but it oscillates up and down, and as soon as it breaks free from the delicate bounds of that radial symmetry, then what? What will that wildly vibrating tilda do when it grows up and looks to walk beyond the asymptotic fences that keep us all safe? And the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics practically guarantees that this will happen.

Wild speculation? I typed ~ into Google and nothing happened. Nothing! I almost typed ~~, but thankfully did not - we all may not be here if I did.

I hope that you reconsider your choice.

You have only made me more convinced! "~" clearly represents the dynamic feminine archetype, a necessary counterbalance to the stagnation of the static masculine ".", the aggressive dynamic masculine "?", and the static feminine degree sign (which my keyboard lacks; making me feel like a motherless child...), and all the more necessary in the unfairly static, musty and patriarchical atmosphere that has been erroneously asssociated with "mythology". That "vibration" is a creative force, without which motion, time, space and life could not exist.
I wonder, Alatar, if your unease about my unpredictable "~" has anything to do with your earlier implication that I could be the destructive being which appeared in your dream...

By the way, Google is overrated!

[alatar]

Originally Posted by Rikae

and the static feminine degree sign (which my keyboard lacks; making me feel like a motherless child...),

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It's not on my keyboard either, but Google does provide the answer...

That "vibration" is a creative force, without which motion, time, space and life could not exist.

That 'vibration' would be quantum mechanics or a very bad hard drive in the computer on your desk; I wonder just how many times you need to type your beloved tilda before you reboot time, space and life as we know it.

I wonder, Alatar, if your unease about my unpredictable "~" has anything to do with your earlier implication that I could be the destructive being which appeared in your dream...

Please continue to implicate yourself...conscience getting the best of you perhaps? (typical behaviour for tildaphiles - commit the crime on the downswing then 'fess up when curving positively).