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Neo is a Hero and exists in the text as a configuration of the audience. He mediates the metaphysical - in this case the Matrix - on our behalf. He is undertaking a quest in the Wilderness (the space between Civilisation and the Metaphysical spaces; heaven and hell) in order to negotiate the...

The thesis is an examination of religious and mythological themes in sf cinema from 1977 - 1997 (from Star Wars to the re-release), focussing in particular on images of the Demonic, the Angelic, the Divine and the constitution of Heroes.

Thanks for the luck - but it's past that stage. It's passed and now belongs to the ages. Permanent binding means that it is now a book in my university's collection. The fork is in it...it's done. Now, to shop my intellectual property to a publisher, after all, I gotta make this dog pay somehow.;)

I have just filed my PhD thesis for permanent binding and booked my spot in the next graduation ceremony. :D :D :D :D :D Soon I will be Doctor No One of Consequence *happy dance* edit: ps. the thesis title is "Religion: Jedi Myth and Metaphysics in SF Film in the post-Star Wars Era...

Is this what baseballers call the seventh inning stretch? I've never made it this far before - the end is in sight, the crown awaits. Of course I could just fall in an embarrassing heap.;) Bring on the "endgame".

Have the judges all fallen victim to a fatal disease? *This is a "what's going on?" bump*

If you can't get clotted cream, for cooking you could improvise with double cream - there's a US based company called King Island Dairy that export their double cream here and I've used it as a substitutue for clotted. Do not, whatever you do, be fooled by "thickened cream" - this is just cream...

Epic story lines and run away heroics. Plot lines are about "saving the world/universe" level events and the action is resolved by a relatively small number of high powered heroes. For example: GRR Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" covers whole continents, but all of the characters have mundane...

Wooo boy - you've left your run late. There's barely two weeks left. I'm a long way from a useful source of info on any of the listed topics. What strikes me most about your requests is that not one of these topics has anything to do with my submission. It makes me wonder if I'm on the right...

Not being in the leastwise mathematically minded (I can do it, it just bores me silly), I have to ask a tangential question: Why is genius still being connected to IQ. I thought Psyche as a discipline had moved beyond this narrow concept. After all, you don't have to have a huge IQ to be...

Actually, I favour a single handed weapon, no shield or off hand (I've got a thing for Chinese swordsmanship a la Jet Lee). Since that option wasn't available, I went for weapon and shield, 'cause I'm a big fan of surviving.

Me too! This is a hellish busy week for me - I'm chasing my PhD supervisor to get her to approve the changes to my thesis so that I can graduate in Sept. I'm finishing off my submission to WotC for the Maiden of Pain, I'm working full time and my poor eighteen month old son is sick as a dog. As...

Sorry, forgot to write the picture numbers into the story. Pic 1: first paragraph Pic 2: final pragraph Pic 3: third last paragraph Pic 4: in the middle Pic 5: scene out front of the tavern. Hope that's ok, I know we can't edit stories once they're up.

Here goes. Double post

Here goes. Garrinfeth and Hobard left the Ducal castle through the main gate and re-emerged onto the street. On either side of the gate the well dressed guardsmen stood at attention. The audience with the Duke, to pay the “adventurer’s duty”, had been less painful than they had anticipated and...

Checking in! Added: a nod to Auroragyps - tough break being judged against each other with different photos. Mine clicked for me but it isn't always that smooth. Let us meet again on an even playing field and perhaps thou shalt unseat me.

I want more Melnibonean dragons - they spit a venomous pseudo-napalm that is sticky, acidic, toxic and ignites on contact with the air, burning hot enough to melt stone. That's nasty! But I do agree with you. The Chromatic/Metallic classifications do detract from the mystery and the majesty...

In the hope that I'm not too late. Nooc vs mystra's chosen The child mystic’s head lowers slowly down upon the anaconda’s body and soon the little boy seems almost asleep. The massive python, easily twice the height of a grown man when stretched straight, coils itself about the little body...

I'll step up for kahuna - can I get a little extra time though? Thanks.

I appear to have become invisible. I can see my own post (back on page 2, before KB and Ang) but Clay appears to have missed it and signed my place over to someone else. Please tell me this is a mistake and not because of something I said, did, didn't say or didn't do.:(