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Tigger please read The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe

Submitted by LamontCranston on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 01:21

The Riders
Who treads those level lands of gold,
The level fields of mist and air,
And rolling mountains manifold
And towers of twilight over there?

No mortal foot upon them strays,
No archer in the towers dwells,
But feet too airy for our ways
Go up and down their hills and dells.

The people out of old romance,
And people that have never been,
And those that on the border dance
Between old history and between

Resounding fable, as the king
Who held his court at Camelot.
There Guinevere is wandering
And there the knight Sir Lancelot.

And by yon precipe of white,
As steep Roncesvalles, and more,
Within an inch of fancy's sight,
Roland the peerless rides to war.

And just the tip of Quixote's spear,
The greatest of them all by far,
Is surely visible from here!
But no: it is the Evening Star.
Lord Dunsany

http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze2tmhh/wolfejbj.html - interviewed by James B. Jordan
http://www.christian-fandom.org/oli-gw.html - a second Christian interview
http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html - a wonderful introduction Wolfe wrote for The Lord of the Rings
reviews
http://www.amazon.com/Knight-Book-One-Wizard/dp/product-description/B000FC1AAW
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0765350505/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
http://www.sfsite.com/07a/tk179.htm
http://www.theharrow.com/columns/reviews/knight.html
http://coffeeandtypescript.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/gene-wolfe-the-wizard-knight/
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue134/wizard_knight_rev.html
http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_wolfe_theknight.html
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/sfnews2/04_april/review0404_12.shtml
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2005/nz7735.php
http://goviolet.com/?p=446

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#1Submitted by Tigger_ on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 17:57.
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I was going to delete this

I was going to delete this post, but on second thoughts I will share my pain with everyone else.

#2Submitted by LamontCranston on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 18:30.
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Tigger_: bawww

[18:00] <@Tigger_> Lamont_Cranston, I am on voluntary ignore
[18:01] <Lamont_Cranston> why?
[18:02] <@Tigger_> Lamont_Cranston, take end and venkman off ignore
[18:02] <Lamont_Cranston> they're not here
[18:02] <Lamont_Cranston> and why should I take END off ignore
[18:02] <@Tigger_> so then I will come off voluntary ignore
[18:03] <Lamont_Cranston> why shoul END be taken off ignore?
[18:03] <Lamont_Cranston> he just trolls and trolls
[18:04] <Lamont_Cranston> and how do I take off ignore someone who is not online
[18:04] <@Tigger_> RegionalCollectionsSupervisor = end
[18:05] <Lamont_Cranston> why should END be taken off ignore?
[18:06] <@Tigger_> <@Tigger_> so then I will come off voluntary ignore
[18:07] <Lamont_Cranston> but why does he deserve to be taken off ignore?
[18:07] <@Tigger_> not my problem
[18:07] <Lamont_Cranston> you want him take off ignore - why?
[18:07] <Lamont_Cranston> he has demonstrated time and time again a compulsive need to fuck around and atagonize and troll
[18:08] <Lamont_Cranston> "because I said so, I'm on an power trip" isn't an explanation
[18:15] <Lamont_Cranston> so Tigger can I get that explanation?
[18:18] <@Tigger_> no
[18:19] <Lamont_Cranston> so no explanation from Tigger, just a childish demand

If I am going to remove him, then for starters I will need an explanation.

#3Submitted by Tigger_ on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 18:34.
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Because I want everybody to

Because I want everybody to be friends.

#4Submitted by LamontCranston on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 18:43.
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standards of hypocrisy

then you'd do something about their, in particularly ENDs, shitty behaviour.
But no.
I remove them from view so I dont have to put up with it - and what do you do about that?
So this is another reason you should read The Wizard Knight, it would teach you to be a decent person.

#5Submitted by Tigger_ on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 18:44.
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Reconciliation

It is time for everybody to put past deeds behind them, to forgive and turn the other cheek. It all begins with the first step.

#6Submitted by LamontCranston on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 18:53.
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heard it before

They'll do it again: Venkman began to the other night when I temporarily took him off ignore for the Eno interview - see his fucking around with absurd contractual agreements. I loath to think of what END will do, probably resuming shitting about the meetup he fuckedup. Then again maybe (no doubt under Venkmans guidance) find something new to agitate over.
What recourse of action do I seek then - trust in your benevolence? I think not.
Why has this suddenly become such a hot issue? I've had them on ignore for weeks now and it only became an issue following the Eno interview.

#7Submitted by Tigger_ on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 18:54.
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Forgiveness

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

#8Submitted by LamontCranston on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 18:56.
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no no no

you only want friendship and reconciliation and forgiveness on the occasion when it disadvantages me.
But you're more than happy to encourage their trolling.

#9Submitted by LamontCranston on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 18:54.
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standards of hypocrisy II

That doesn't explain your lack of inclination to do anything about them.
But I put them on ignore, and suddenly the shit has hit the fan.

#10Submitted by Tigger_ on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 19:02.
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We must all discuss this in

We must all discuss this in the coming Reconciliation Tribunal.

#11Submitted by LamontCranston on Sat, 07/25/2009 - 07:11.
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well

I'd say this mornings freakout was proof enough Venkman simply cannot control himself and should have remained on ignore, and that Tigger is at minimum complicit in Venkmans histrionics.