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Re: Information I'd love to know
Post by saber964   » Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:53 pm

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Why is DW using obsidian which is IIRC volcanic glass and is very brittle?
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Re: Information I'd love to know
Post by SWM   » Mon Feb 24, 2014 11:18 pm

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saber964 wrote:Why is DW using obsidian which is IIRC volcanic glass and is very brittle?

Uh, what are you talking about?
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Re: Information I'd love to know
Post by Jonathan_S   » Mon Feb 24, 2014 11:32 pm

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SWM wrote:
saber964 wrote:Why is DW using obsidian which is IIRC volcanic glass and is very brittle?

Uh, what are you talking about?
Because I can't help myself a search through the ebooks turned up a couple possibilities.

The most likely is from Flag in Exile where ceramacrete was "equivalent of a plug of solid igneous rock stronger and harder than obsidian"

Another possibility would be from Shadows of Saganami which had the phrase "The expression which had given away so little turned -obsidian-hard, but even that was less flinty than his eyes"

Much less likely is the "eight-meter-polished!-obsidian column" Honor's statue is atop (Ashes of Victory)


The rest of the occurrences refer to its appearance, or sharpness (when chipped into a blade), and so wouldn't make sense in relation to the previous poster's comment.
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Re: Information I'd love to know
Post by Amaroq   » Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:43 pm

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I'd love to know: has Honor ever met Jeremy X? I would love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.
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Re: Information I'd love to know
Post by drothgery   » Tue Feb 25, 2014 4:35 pm

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Amaroq wrote:I'd love to know: has Honor ever met Jeremy X? I would love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.

I don't know if she had earlier, but ...
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She meets him when the Torches come to Manticore early in Cauldron of Ghosts.
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Re: Information I'd love to know
Post by Amaroq   » Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:09 pm

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drothgery wrote:
Amaroq wrote:I'd love to know: has Honor ever met Jeremy X? I would love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.

I don't know if she had earlier, but ...
SPOILER
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She meets him when the Torches come to Manticore early in Cauldron of Ghosts.


Ah, thank you drothgery. I've started reading CoG and I'm probably close to that part.
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Re: Information I'd love to know
Post by roseandheather   » Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:14 pm

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Amaroq wrote:
Ah, thank you drothgery. I've started reading CoG and I'm probably close to that part.


I did not expect to feel particularly gleeful over CoG. I've enjoyed the other Torch books, but not really loved them (except for the parts with Michael Oversteegen); I've always been drawn to Haven, Talbott, and Manticore more, through no fault of anybody's but my own quirks.

I loved it.
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Re: Information I'd love to know
Post by saber964   » Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:03 pm

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Jonathan_S wrote:
SWM wrote: quote="saber964"]Why is DW using obsidian which is IIRC volcanic glass and is very brittle?

Uh, what are you talking about?
Because I can't help myself a search through the ebooks turned up a couple possibilities.

The most likely is from Flag in Exile where ceramacrete was "equivalent of a plug of solid igneous rock stronger and harder than obsidian"

Another possibility would be from Shadows of Saganami which had the phrase "The expression which had given away so little turned -obsidian-hard, but even that was less flinty than his eyes"

Much less likely is the "eight-meter-polished!-obsidian column" Honor's statue is atop (Ashes of Victory)


The rest of the occurrences refer to its appearance, or sharpness (when chipped into a blade), and so wouldn't make sense in relation to the previous poster's comment.[/quote]

Number 1 and 3
If DW wants a really tough rock he might try granite which is a very dense rock and very erosion resistant.
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Re: Information I'd love to know
Post by bunyipbelle   » Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:47 pm

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I would like to know how Sonja Hemphills and Hamish Alexanders rivalry started. I think that I read somewhere that they have known each other since kindergarten.Did the rivalry start then? Did Sonja break Hamish's toy spaceship when she took it apart to see how it worked? Or did it start later at the academy perhaps? I would really like to know.
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Re: Information I'd love to know
Post by NortonIDaughter   » Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:06 pm

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bunyipbelle wrote:I would like to know how Sonja Hemphills and Hamish Alexanders rivalry started. I think that I read somewhere that they have known each other since kindergarten.Did the rivalry start then? Did Sonja break Hamish's toy spaceship when she took it apart to see how it worked? Or did it start later at the academy perhaps? I would really like to know.


Love it. All of Hamish's grudges seem to start young-- Caparelli and soccer, etc. It's probably best for their marriage if Honor never does teach him to fence.
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