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Old 12-18-2014, 01:49 PM   #16
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I am boring, so why would I want to read about someone like myself
or even more boring than oneself. I know happen to stumumble across such books
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Old 12-18-2014, 05:19 PM   #17
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There was a story in Analog years ago that featured 'Slow Glass' where it took a long time for the view to pass through.
There's a couple of stories and a fix-up novel by the late Bob Shaw on that subject. I don't know if they're the ones you mean, but I liked the book a lot. I think the novel is Other Days, Other Eyes and the main story is Light of Other Days.

I guess I'm mainly a windows person, but I think they're all really mirrors in the end. It's just that some of them are more obviously mirrors than others.
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Definitely windows. I don't think an author could think up a weirdo like me. At the very least I know I wouldn't want to read about anyone like me. ��
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Definitely windows. I don't think an author could think up a weirdo like me. At the very least I know I wouldn't want to read about anyone like me. ��
Ditto! For me! Not you
My life is so boring no one would want to read about it. That's why I read fiction.
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Old 12-18-2014, 07:39 PM   #20
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I am mostly a windows reader.
Life can be a dreary poison ivy and sumac hedge maze full of dead ends and unpleasant choices.
I can escape into an open field of flowers and butterflies through a book.

I am pleased to have posted before anyone insisted that they were an iOS reader.
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Old 12-18-2014, 08:23 PM   #21
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Windows.
Sometimes Linux.

But seriously, It's totally true and cool that I can occasionally notice a reflection in the glass, but Windows, without a doubt.
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A very interesting question, and neat answers by everyone. I'd have to go with windows.
As a young person, i was more interested in mirrors. As they say, "an unexamined life isn't worth living" etc.

However, i now read strictly for pleasure, not insight, and find mirrors rather boring.
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I am pleased to have posted before anyone insisted that they were an iOS reader.
No one is an iOS reader. It is a dirty lie.
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Old 12-21-2014, 10:19 AM   #24
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There was a story in Analog years ago that featured 'Slow Glass' where it took a long time for the view to pass through.

Would 'Fast Glass' show the future
Wikipedia: Slow light in fiction discusses several works, in addition to the above-mentioned short story, that discuss this interesting concept.
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OMG was it that long ago?
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Books aren't just windows for me - they are transporters!
Hahaha! I like this! Books are like portals that enter you into a new world. Different genre, different portal.

However, to most extent (for me, at least); I also agree with this:
"The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."

-Anatole Broyard
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So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

And I see not in my blindness
What the objects were I wrought,
But as God rules o'er our bickerings
It was through His will I fought.

1918 George Smith Patton, Jr.

Not sure what his rank would have been in 1918.

BR
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