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estick is Eraser-mad.
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 Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:29 am Post subject: Robert Jordan |
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lugo is unable to remember his password.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:34 am Post subject: |
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Wow.
Damnit.
Saw it coming, and I feel bad for the guy, but...
...what a fucking douchey thing to do. |
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mchicken is dejected.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:25 am Post subject: |
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| Hey, if Frank Herbert doesn't get to live to finish his books, no one else should get to, either. |
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jaster is back in black
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| mchicken wrote: | | Hey, if Frank Herbert doesn't get to live to finish his books, no one else should get to, either. |
I've never agreed with anything more than I agree with this.
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When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
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estick is Eraser-mad.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| mchicken wrote: | | Hey, if Frank Herbert doesn't get to live to finish his books, no one else should get to, either. |
Apparently he shared the significant plot points of the last book with his family before he died.
Also, apparently his actual name was James Rigney. |
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lugo is unable to remember his password.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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From an old article about the man of the hour:
'"I've been warned that if I died before I finished the books, they were going to desecrate my grave," he said with a laugh.'
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/books/news/12/07/robert.jordan/
Prophetic? Perhaps. |
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mchicken is dejected.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I really don't think the books are any good anymore. |
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