ospalhJul 6, 2023

Oh dear.
I hate how that book i red recently would fit right in here.
https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/wie-151

In Cruise of the condor Biggles & al find a wall with markings of an old civilization (Maya) and promptly break it down, starting another fase of their adventure.

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El Goonish Shive - EGS:NP - WIE-151

El Goonish Shive is a comic about a group of teenagers who face both real life and bizarre, supernatural situations.

Show threadospalhDec 17, 2022

"(...) treasure literally worth a king's ransom"
Yeah, yeah. It's fine. Merriam-Webster lists "virtually" as one meaning of "literally".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

🤔 Wait, they *did* try to load gold that the Inca wanted to use to get their ruler out of Spanish captivity.
*That* "literally".

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Definition of LITERALLY

Definition of 'literally' by Merriam-Webster

Show threadospalhDec 16, 2022
Hmpf. I don’t know what’s a cheaper literary trick: conveniently timed #earthquake­s doing convenient damage, or convenient #lottery wins.
In this book, they don’t play the lottery, is what i’m saying. But #Heinlein did cheat when he used that to give #Friday some money.
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Show threadospalhDec 16, 2022
So, yeah. They used the rope to tie themselves together as a rope party (Seilschaft), and Biggles only got scared half to deth hanging over a casm instead of falling into it.
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Show threadospalhDec 15, 2022

»In such simple actions does Fate show her hand.«

I don’t know, maybe somehow the rope Biggles just grabbed might come in handy later. Probably not, tho.

#foreshadowing with a mallet (Holzhammermethode)

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Show threadospalhDec 15, 2022

I ges the movie »Snakes on a Plane« is the sequel to this the same way »Aliens« is the sequel to »Alien«.

Yep. We got 🐍🛩️😱

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ospalhDec 14, 2022
I ges i never red old action stories before.
I’m learning a bunch of old words great for those.
The latest: »hist«.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hist
»An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention«, as they alredy ar silent in the story.
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hist - Wiktionary

ospalhDec 8, 2022
Of course the English c. 1920 had to maintain their #class society even in a group of four people.
We hav the guy who owns an estate and pays for everything: upper class
Biggles and his colleague Algy: Upper middle class
The mechanic: probably lower middle class. Not really working class. He calls everyone else »Sir«. 😩
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ospalhDec 7, 2022
How boring
In one dramatic sene, #Biggles finds himself in a dfifting floatplane above a waterfall.
Then he does go downstream, because the engine isn’t powerful enuf otherwise.
Nice enuf.
But it could hav been so much more dramatic.
In the book, the short distance towards the fall is enuf to take of and fly away with positive climb. (We imagine we hear a »gear up!«)
…
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ospalhDec 7, 2022

Wait, #Biggles has to make a (quite uneventful) forced landing because *the* magneto failed? Singular?

I ges things do change in aviation.
They took of in a hurry – it’s an adventure novel – but usually yu do check *both* ignition sistems during the pre-flight checklist.

Start engine
switch to only magneto 1, watch the RPM drop a tad, both, RPM up
magneto 2, down again
both, up again,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_ignition
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Dual ignition - Wikipedia