Oh yeah, and I found a copy of the family tree from 100 Years of Solitude:
Notice the "17 Aurelianos" on the left. That's how fucked up this family were.
Notice the "17 Aurelianos" on the left. That's how fucked up this family were.
The Lord of the Rings Project
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Oh yeah, and I found a copy of the family tree from 100 Years of Solitude:
Notice the "17 Aurelianos" on the left. That's how fucked up this family were.
Good gods that's a horrible user interface with even lousier performance. Ugh!
Slave to the Patriarchy no more
RE: The Lord of the Rings Project
January 26, 2012 at 4:43 pm
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(January 26, 2012 at 4:25 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: My original copies didn't. My 3-in-one illustrated tome does. And some people read the electronic version. [shrugs] Thought it was a good resource regardless. Oh, I didn't mean it wasn't a good resource. I just meant it would probably be easy to just scan it and post it. (January 26, 2012 at 4:29 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Oh yeah, and I found a copy of the family tree from 100 Years of Solitude: Yes, they were pretty fucked up. Such an interesting book, though.
That one's on my list, which must be over 300 books long at this point... ugh.
I said on Facebook I wish I could plug into my computer like in the Matrix...maybe I'd finish books more quickly.
It's a must read. I think anyone can take some sort of lesson from it. I'm afraid what I took from it is much different than what the author intended, given his background, but it certainly does speak to our demographic.
RE: The Lord of the Rings Project
January 26, 2012 at 7:50 pm
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(January 26, 2012 at 12:02 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Internets: making lives and books with nearly incomprehensible family trees easier There is a book around by Philip Jose Farmer, which gives the family tree of a whole bunch of heroes,such as Doc Savage, The Shadow, Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes,etc,etc: they are all related. Far more interesting than watching nerds masturbate in public.. Quote:Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life is a fictional biography by Philip José Farmer about pulp fiction hero Doc Savage. Quote:The Wold Newton family is a literary concept derived from a form of crossover fiction developed by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer. Farmer suggested in two "biographies" of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life), that the (real) meteorite which fell in Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, was radioactive and caused genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach. Many of their descendants were thus endowed with extremely high intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good, or, as the case may be, evil deeds. The progeny of these travellers were purported to have been the real-life originals of fictionalised characters, both heroic and villainous, over the last few hundred years, such as Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, Doc Savage, and Lord Peter Wimsey. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wold_Newton_family 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 His book on the REAL story of Tarzan,"Tarzan Alive" is great.. Quote:Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (1972) is a fictional biography by Philip José Farmer. It presents the life story of Edgar Rice Burroughs' literary hero Tarzan as if he were a real person. |
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