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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.
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Date: 2006-08-02 04:07 pm (UTC)One of the things I find difficult to explain to people is that there are certainly areas of online culture that are just as closed as "real life" culture used to be/still is. That I don't read Fark.com because 13 year old boy humour and misogynistic remarks rule the day. That I hesitate to start gaming after hearing about some of my female friends' experiences with men in game. And how very much it bothersm e that this seems to be okay.
Argh. I seem to be better at the irritation this morning than the coherence. One good thing that came out of not taking those classes, though-- I didn't get boxed into what my professors thought I should be learning. I got the chance to research around the library community and decide what would be useful to me later. That's how I got interested in the social software/open source movements. I'm a lot self-taught, and that's both good and bad.