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05-21-2007, 07:49 AM
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Spectre of Capitalism
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Battling evil bureaucrats at Zeta Aquilae
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05-21-2007, 09:21 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: The last wave over Atalantë
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Let us indeed! Who'd like to start?
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Wight
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Hominum que contente mundique huius et cupido
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Ummm...???
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05-21-2007, 01:15 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard.
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I'm confused...
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05-21-2007, 01:17 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: In a tiny, insignificant little town in one of the many States.
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I think the question mark is better.
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05-21-2007, 02:57 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard.
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05-21-2007, 03:20 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Stuck under a rock in Valinor with Ar-Pharazon.
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(sigh) Get thine thread going already!
 F.ex. Eragon = Pretty good for a 15 year old author but copied Tolkien a bit. Eragon Movies = RUBBISH. Someone elaborate on that.
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05-21-2007, 03:40 PM
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Spectre of Capitalism
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Battling evil bureaucrats at Zeta Aquilae
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In my humble opinion, '?' is to be preferred, leaving as it does a sense of the mystery, of searching out the unknown, of the pursuit of further knowledge. By contrast '.' is almost an obscenity, declaring as it does that there is no more to be said, a prejudicial epithet to the yearning of the human psyche to discover, to explore.
While '.' carries the ultimate simplicity of a full-stop, the elegance of a single point in space, it is nevertheless the cold finality of the finishing of a thought expressed, allowing no extension and brooking no opposition. '?' leaves open the possibility of a '.' to be had in the future, perhaps at the end of all things, but to assert '.' from our limited perspective at present is mere presumption.
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