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  • General Fiction Novels Re: The Girl Who Wants Everything

    The narrator part might have helped you start writing, but it should get deleted after you've finished. I moved this from non-fiction. Stories are fiction unless they are true. Then ...

    Oct 25, 2006
  • Archive Re: E.A.G.L.E.S.

    Grif Santana sat in his quarters. He had just been given a tour of the E.A.G.L.E.S. facility. A fitness circuit, state of the art weapons, shooting range, cafeteria, even cable ...

    Oct 25, 2006
  • Fantasy Novels Re: The Veil Not Seen

    I thought the yelling at god scene was a little cliche. It just seems like something done to heighten the desperation of the character. The rocky giant loomed above me ...

    Oct 25, 2006
  • Archive Re: E.A.G.L.E.S.

    Name: Grif Santana Background: Recruited from the U.S. Army Rangers, he is fluent in several languages, as well as intelligence missions. He is qualified as a sniper and light infantry. ...

    Oct 25, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Nostradamus

    I'm interested in seeing hard facts to back up those claims.

    Oct 24, 2006
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Shel Sylverstein

    Ah yes. I like her poems.

    Oct 24, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Terrorism

    I don't know why anyone would use a suitcase bomb in a school. It's so much easier to put plastic explosives in every trash can you come across. You detonate ...

    Oct 23, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Conspiracy Theories

    Seems more like a lounge thread to me. *Moved*

    Oct 23, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Terrorism

    Will the Terrorists strike again? Without a doubt. Will they succeed? Statistically speaking, they will succeed at some point. Even in a 99.99% efficent system, they're is still a chance ...

    Oct 23, 2006
  • Research Re: Please help me!

    Episode I isn't really illustrative of the Dark Side because it is in the illusive background. Episode II has a few more elements to the Dark Side (Anakin going psycho ...

    Oct 22, 2006
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Featured Member 10/21-11/4

    Incandescence! With 5,588 points, Incan dominated the points board. Congratulations on a job well done.

    Oct 22, 2006
  • Fantasy Novels Re: The Veil Not Seen

    I sat on the night shore clutching my body, as the steady plip plop of rain began. Shivering, I rubbed my hands together as I gazed at the sea. This ...

    Oct 22, 2006
  • Information Desk Archive Re: The YWS Interview With Tamora Pierce

    Gift basket power! Very informative.

    Oct 20, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: North Korea Tests Nuclear Device

    The first blast was less than a kiloton in power. This is a lot of power: (1,000 tons of TNT) but nowhere near 100 megaton hydrogen bombs that we possess ...

    Oct 20, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Life and death

    The answer to this question has been under intense scrutiny for a very long time. Scientists can now say for certain that the answer for the meaning of life is ...

    Oct 20, 2006


That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.
— Ramy (Babel by R. F. Kuang)