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

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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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Dec 15, 2022 at 7:59amWeb
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

»With cheerful smiles and the thrill of the treasure-hunt upon them, they strode off gaily in the direction of the cave.«

Oh, right. They ar even less archeologists than Indiana Jones is. The story is basically »I hav found proof of Inca activity east of the Andes, so we will go there and grab some gold.« Maybe they want to give some to the British Museum later?

Show threadospalhDec 15, 2022
»a good-sized concave hole«
Not a flat hole or convex hole, mind yu!
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 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 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