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Maia wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:31 am Yes, that's the one. They were building a church, taking decades.

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:39 am

Maia wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:31 am Yes, that's the one. They were building a church, taking decades.

I heard they're using the old skills to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral, hand hewn beams and such, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's not some electric machines helping out. Fortunately they're not rebuilding one of the great pyramids with original methods.

Maia wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:49 am

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:39 am

Maia wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:31 am Yes, that's the one. They were building a church, taking decades.

I heard they're using the old skills to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral, hand hewn beams and such, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's not some electric machines helping out. Fortunately they're not rebuilding one of the great pyramids with original methods.

At least the old skills still survive. As for the pyramids, though, apparently they were built from the top down. Or so I've read, anyway...

Walker wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2024 8:45 am

Maia wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:49 am

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:39 am
I heard they're using the old skills to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral, hand hewn beams and such, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's not some electric machines helping out. Fortunately they're not rebuilding one of the great pyramids with original methods.

At least the old skills still survive. As for the pyramids, though, apparently they were built from the top down. Or so I've read, anyway...

I'm pretty sure you didn't get that from Pillars of the Earth, unless you're beginning a metaphor that involves the head office.

Maia wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:49 am

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:39 am

Maia wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:31 am Yes, that's the one. They were building a church, taking decades.

I heard they're using the old skills to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral, hand hewn beams and such, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's not some electric machines helping out. Fortunately they're not rebuilding one of the great pyramids with original methods.

At least the old skills still survive. As for the pyramids, though, apparently they were built from the top down. Or so I've read, anyway...

promethean75 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 1:17 pm Fantasy genre. Feist, the author of the Riftwar series with Pug. Ourstanding series.

All time favorite sci fi even over Asimov is Herbert and the Dune series. Untouchable. The one and only.

My blade will finish u!

He is the Kwisatz Haderach!

promethean75 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 1:17 pm Fantasy genre. Feist, the author of the Riftwar series with Pug. Ourstanding series.

All time favorite sci fi even over Asimov is Herbert and the Dune series. Untouchable. The one and only.

My blade will finish u!

He is the Kwisatz Haderach!

Maia wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 2:39 pm I'll start with Tolkien, mainly because I find his world building to be pretty amazing. My favourite book of his is the Silmarillion, which most resembles a genuine mythology.

Jane Louise Curry is an America writer of young adult fantasy, who has clearly, in part, been inspired by Tolkien, but has very much put her own spin on it. My favourite of hers is Beneath the Hill, which I read when I was little, leaving an indelible impression on me.

Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince are a writing duo who cover alternative history and unsolved mysteries, and have written on quite a wide range of subjects. My favourite of theirs is The Sion Revelation, an in depth investigation into the Priory of Sion story, from a critical perspective.

Robert Graves has written both fiction and non-fiction. Among the latter is The White Goddess, a compendium of Celtic myth, though my favourite of his is I, Claudius and its sequel, Claudius the God, a fictional autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius.

There are more, of course, but that'll do for now, I think.

I’ve said it a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book. I wasn’t satisfied with the first, and that’s why I wrote the second. I wasn’t satisfied with the second, so I wrote the third, and so on. Now, with Baron, I can close this story. With this novel I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life. This is the book—Satantango, Melancholy, War and War, and Baron. This is my one book.

---Laszlo Krasnakorkai