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The Unholy Consult / Re: Bakker, font sizes and the ultimate mic drop
« on: August 20, 2020, 07:23:03 am »
Good to read you guys too  :)

You may be right Wilshire. But I'm going to check other hardcovers at the book store and see if any other recent books have done it.

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The Unholy Consult / Bakker, font sizes and the ultimate mic drop
« on: August 19, 2020, 06:26:41 pm »
So he specifically told the hardcover publisher to make sure the last line of TUC was on the last line of the right hand page, right?

Same reason he put an EMORMOUS glossary in the back? So our brains would fool us into thinking there's more story to come when we got to salt and butchery?

That's the crash space, right? By doing that, he KNEW that, even despite his telling us hundreds of times,  that there is no meaning, that every character ends up in oblivion, our adorable human heart-minds would, without us knowing it, cheat our perception so that when we were 451 pages in, appalled, engrossed, terrified, that even then our minds would be saying 'Holy cow, I know there's a glossary in the back, but still, things have to wrap up soon. How does it end in a satisfying fashion?'

Which is to say: How does the story end in a way that tells me, Yes Dear Reader, all of this means something. Maybe not much, maybe something awful. But this story, this universe, this life, means SOMETHING, right Bakker? Right, me?

No.

On that last line of Page 451, Bakker did exactly what he said he would do:

He reached right out of the book and made us actually FEEL the ultimate fucking horror:

There Is No God.



Maybe you guys have already been here this whole time and I'm just spouting the bleeding obvious. Either way, this thought hit me like a thunderbolt yesterday. I thought about the ending, then I thumbed through the book, and I couldn't believe my eyes.

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The Unholy Consult / Re: The Unholy Consult Giveaway
« on: May 25, 2017, 07:16:47 pm »
Mimara regards Aurang and sees him as good.

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General Earwa / Re: TSACast (SA Podcast)
« on: April 05, 2017, 02:04:49 pm »
You work at a recording studio? I'm... sorry. Your ears must be bleeding with the low, low quality of our casts lol. Help would be appreciated, sir.

Haha it is rough for sure... but revelation requires sacrifice. 

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General Earwa / Re: TSACast (SA Podcast)
« on: March 31, 2017, 03:22:36 pm »
Hey guys, just wanted to send a quick note that I really enjoyed all the re-read casts. Lots of great thoughts that blew my mind! It would be great to hear your collective ramblings on WLW and TGO. Madness, I work at a recording studio, so if you need some help with the files I may be able to hook you up with someone to help clean up the audio. 

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General Earwa / Re: Why did the Nonmen teach Men the Gnosis?
« on: July 06, 2016, 12:07:06 am »
H, thanks for the tip. I'm still wondering why Nonmen would give that sort of knowledge away to another race. Or perhaps it's as simple as one enterprising Nonman starting his own school because he doesn't want to get stuck in the 9 to 5 grind like all his buddies toiling away at Aporos Worldwide Inc.  :)

And on the side note - I never played Magic. Tivadar is actually my middle name (Hungarian for Theodore). But I used it as my D & D character name through his school, so that's at least a little nerd cred...

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General Earwa / Re: Why did the Nonmen teach Men the Gnosis?
« on: July 04, 2016, 04:56:01 pm »
I actually just reread The False Sun a couple of days ago - but came away even more confused! I'll have to reread I guess! And I'll check out the back of TTT. Thanks Madness.

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General Earwa / Why did the Nonmen teach Men the Gnosis?
« on: July 02, 2016, 11:01:20 pm »
Hi all, I just reread the 5 books in preparation for the great ordeal. I've been able to find out most of the questions I've had in this forum, but not this one. Seems simple enough, but I can't find an answer. Thanks!


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Will Golgotterath be overrun with belligerent feminist bloggers?

Will the Synthese and the Wathi Doll go on an adorable road trip in their own cartoon spinoff?

Will Moenghus' seeing-eye snakes release a scandalous tell-all memoir?


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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hey hey
« on: August 05, 2014, 03:37:38 am »
Thanks gents!

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Introduce Yourself / Hey hey
« on: August 01, 2014, 08:18:19 pm »
Hi everyone!
A friend of mine recommended TDTCB a few years back. So I bought it…and left it on my shelf for years. I finally opened it early last year, and was hooked. I devoured the five books, and now I'm reading the Atrocity Tales. I'm now trying to figure out exactly when to start my re-read so I finish TWW juuuuust as TUC comes out :) Any suggestions?


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