The overstuffed ballot box

[kpreid]

I get the feeling the textbook writers had a list of everyday objects which they randomly picked from to avoid saying “an object” in each exercise. The results are mostly just distracting or mildly amusing, but sometimes they're a bit too much:

— Halliday, Resnick, Walker, Fundamentals of Physics, 8th ed., page 215

Comments

[kpreid.livejournal.com]

The Makurada Demagon isn't the same event as the fall of Atlantaea? You disappoint me.

[seawasp]

They COULD have been (well, specifically, the Makurada Demagon, the Senseless Shattering, would refer to the Sealing of Magic, which was part of but not all of the Fall of Atlantaea), but as Diamonds was a co-authored work I made no immediate and necessary connections. If many years go by and neither of us does anything with the background, I might fold them into my universe, but it's partly Eric's too.

[kpreid.livejournal.com]

(I appreciate the distinction; I just didn't want to immediately reread enough of Digital Knight and Shadow of Fear to see if you had a term for what you now call the Sealing of Magic.)

Ah, I had forgotten and not noticed that it was co-authored.

[seawasp]

There is a term for the Sealing -- several, actually, depending on who's talking about it -- but it's not the same one.

Well, as Eric himself said, "Ryk, if there was any justice in the world, my name wouldn't even be ON this thing, because all I did was throw a couple ideas at you and say 'go, go'. On the other hand, about a hundred times more people know my name as compared to yours, so with my name on this we'll probably sell a lot more copies."