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Re: Question for the Classicists and/or Medieval Lit experts.

n...@spam.thankee (Eric Ammadon) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:07:46 UT

LOL,
"Neener neener you are a scholar!"
"Damn right I am but you are NOT!"

Re: Question for the Classicists and/or Medieval Lit experts.

n...@spam.thankee (Eric Ammadon) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:06:28 UT

I'm pretty sure cigarettes are a later convenience. Leaves could be
rolled up into cigars, but cigarettes need processed paper. I don't
think that (but I'm not sure) hashish or opium are from sources that
would be cigar-compatible, mostly those were/are smoked in pipes.

Re: Question for the Classicists and/or Medieval Lit experts.

pe...@sagatafl.invalid (Peter Knutsen) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:05:43 UT

I got the impression it was eaten, not smoked in any modern fashion.
Gillian Bradshaw has the (Sermatian) protagonist throw hemp seeds on a
fire, in a tent, in her "Island of Ghosts", so that's a sort of smoke
inhalation, but nothing like modern pipes or cigarettes.

Re: Question for the Classicists and/or Medieval Lit experts.

n...@spam.thankee (Eric Ammadon) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:04:13 UT

Hashish has been around for quite a long time.

Re: 550 Words but We Haven't Done This Much Lately

d...@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com (David Friedman) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:01:27 UT

In article <i6a6q59cr73o806i6pdejgidit4fo pk...@4ax.com>,
You may have been thinking of "arcuballista," but that's just an early
term for a crossbow. Or "arbalest," another word for a crossbow.
Ballista's are sometimes represented in art as giant crossbows, but
that's an error, presumably due to the similarity in appearance. I'm not

Re: Question for the Classicists and/or Medieval Lit experts.

d...@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com (David Friedman) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:56:18 UT

In article <4ba3744e$0$283$14726...@news. sunsite.dk>,
Marijuana was being used long before Columbus, but I don't know the
details--in particular, whether in cigarettes or something similar.

Re: Question for the Classicists and/or Medieval Lit experts.

d...@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com (David Friedman) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:54:56 UT

In article <1jflbwp.157p2qbid46fqN%mbotto ...@lshelby.com>,
I think your setting is a little late for that--although, since it's
alternate history, that doesn't have to be a bar.
...

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Re: 550 Words but We Haven't Done This Much Lately

bill.re...@taylorandfrancis.com (Will in New Haven) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:10:39 UT

Enough bloods spouting might convince Mardi, right or wrong, that Shem
isn't waking up. However, as an experienced hunter, he probably does
make sure of his game.
Or not to mention his finishing off an unconscious foe. You may relish
that bit of detail and I may include it or not.

Re: Are your characters hungry when you are?

pe...@sagatafl.invalid (Peter Knutsen) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:06:28 UT

I've got a black-furred felinoid character that I tend to visualize as
white-furred. Both fur colours, and many other fur colours, exist within
the species, but this one *is* black-furred. I just find it a bit hard
to wrap my head around it.
(I'm pink-skinned, or "white", which probably is part of the explanation.)

Re: Book: "Spacecraft Design for Science Fiction Authors"

pe...@sagatafl.invalid (Peter Knutsen) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:02:43 UT

Julian is *wildly* missing the point, being factually ignorant of what
it is that RPG supplements (/tools) such as "GURPS Spaceships" and
"GURPS Vehicles" do.

Re: Question for the Classicists and/or Medieval Lit experts.

mbotto...@lshelby.com (Michelle Bottorff) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:57:55 UT

Even I've read Ovid. (Well, some Ovid, in translation).
I wrote a song based on Ovid's version of the Phaethon myth, out of
Metamorphoses. I actually wrote it based on just what I remembered
reading once, and when someone complained that it wasn't a take that
they could see coming out of the version of the myth they knew, I had to

Re: Question for the Classicists and/or Medieval Lit experts.

pe...@sagatafl.invalid (Peter Knutsen) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:55:44 UT

But is the act of smoking old world? As in rolling stuff up into
cylinders, or putting it into pipes?

Re: Question for the Classicists and/or Medieval Lit experts.

mbotto...@lshelby.com (Michelle Bottorff) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:37:00 UT

It's not as tricky as all that. By the time she says anything, he has
already unmasked her, so she's just returning the favor. :)

Re: 550 Words but We Haven't Done This Much Lately

n...@spam.thankee (Eric Ammadon) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:06:34 UT

Every arrow is your last arrow, use it accordingly.
That is the philosophy that has brought us nuclear paranoia and
manipulative bureacracy, it's no wonder you think they're out to get
you if that's your response. It's the attitude that says hell, why
bother taking a risk, you don't believe what you're fighting for

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