January 28
I have decided that I like Tuesdays and Thursdays the best. Poetry class is really fun.
Last night I agonized over poetry—agonized over it. What poem spoke to me the most? I'd think I'd found just the right one, and then I'd read a little further ahead and come upon another that I really really liked.
I thought for sure my favorite would be Why did you go, and as I narrowed down my choices (I even read some to Peggy, who doesn't really like poetry all that much) I kept coming back to it. But I had the good sense to take the book with me this morning, tucking it neatly in my saddlebags.
I didn't read anything at breakfast, of course. It would be rude to be reading a book in front of my table-mates. But once breakfast was over, I sat on the front steps of the dining hall just for a bit and read a couple more poems.
Then I found the perfect poem, or maybe it would be better to say that it found me. A wind has blown the rain away. I might not have even thought of it, except that I was sitting on the front steps of the dining hall and looking at the snow-covered lawn and the bare trees stretching to the sky, waiting for spring to come.
I'm sure he was talking about fall rains, and nopony really appreciates them. No; that's not totally true, a lot of earth ponies actually like them because it is a time when they can cuddle together in their homes and drink hot chocolate and see if they are ready for the winter (but they won't tell you that they like them). Plus they are important to keep the ground moisture up in the forests so that we don't have forest fires. Lots of fallen leaves and dry brush can be a fire hazard.
Right at the beginning of class I read the poem, and Conrad smiled at me and said that he thought it was a lovely poem as well.
After lunch, I thought it would be fun to chase the wind for while. It was a little gusty, but not too much.
After I got permission, I went south. Not too far from the college was a big stadium with a horse-head on it. The university next to us is called Western Michigan, and their mascot is a bronco, while we have a hornet.
I'm really more partial to the bronco, I have to say.
I followed above the road until it got to a big highway, and then I turned around and headed back. That was enough exploration for one day—there was so much to see! So many buildings! Right now I was still trying to get a sense of the area, so I'd know where all the important places were. It was the best time for it, too; without all the leaves on the trees, you could really see a lot. Later, in the summer, much of it will be covered by the tree canopy.
Since I could see the bell tower from my altitude, I decided to take a different route back. I knew where the main road (which is actually called Main Street) went, and I was sure that the crossroad I was at would lead me to it, so I decided to find out. Sure enough, when I got close I recognized the Maple Hill Mall.
Unlike the cars below me, I wasn't constrained by roads, so I cut the corner in a broad arc, and then followed Main Street back towards the center of town. As I got close to Aric's house, I thought about flying down and saying hi, but I could see that Winston wasn't there. The other truck was, completely covered by snow.
I'd made a point of not working myself too hard on my flight. I didn't want to have to take another shower today. It's best to get in the hard exercise in the morning, anyway; it's a good way to wake up. A lot of the students rely on coffee or cans of what they call energy drinks.
I landed in front of the chapel and opened the front door. When I was inside, I thought maybe I'd been misled—there was a big meeting hall, with a railing and a podium, and behind that a gallery. But then I saw a little sign on the wall that said “Offices,” and pointed downstairs. So I went where the sign had told me.
Nobody was downstairs. All the rooms were closed and locked up. That was disappointing, but I had nopony to blame but myself. I could have gone over to the chapel right after lunch and found out about God, if I hadn't been flying instead.
I stopped back in our dorm room long enough to comb the tangles out of my mane and tail, then I went to dinner. It was another themed night; most of the food was what they called 'Italian,' and they had put red and white checkered tablecloths on the tables. They mostly had different kinds of pasta and sauces to put on the pasta. None of it looked all that appealing, but I thought I'd give it a try anyway, since you can't always judge things by their appearance.
Well, that experiment was a bust. Noodles are a menace. I kept getting little splotches of sauce around my muzzle, much to everyone else's amusement.
I did finish my plate, because it's not polite to take food you don't intend to eat, even if you don't like it all that much.
Once dinner was over, I made my way over to Meghan's room. She lives in a dorm called DeWaters, which is right next to mine. Like many of the buildings on campus, it's built on a hill, so the floor where you enter the building might not be the first floor (my dorm has entrances on the basement floor and the first floor).
I hadn't seen a room like hers before. She has a roommate like I do, but then there is a bathroom and another room on the other side of it, so there are four people who share a pair of rooms and a bathroom. The other three people were Lisa and Becky, who I already knew, and Amy who I hadn't met yet.
We were going to work in Meghan and Amy's room, but Amy was doing homework and so we decided to go to the other side. We went through their bathroom (which has a bathtub that I'm going to ask if I can use sometime) and to their room which was essentially a mirror-image of the first.
Since there weren't enough chairs, Meghan and Lisa sat with me on the bed, while Becky sat in one of the desk chairs. Instead of sitting in it the right way, though, she turned it around and leaned against the backrest. I didn't know you could use a chair like that.
They had a lot of questions about the book, and I tried to answer them as well as I could. It's funny how much you forget about a book when you haven't read it for a while. Then I had to explain a bunch of stuff to them, like that there aren't really living clouds (although sometimes with magic you can make it appear that there are).
It was fun to talk about it, and it brought back a lot of happy memories. I'd gotten the books for my birthday, and so many of my friends were jealous because they all had spring birthdays—like most ponies do—and so the books hadn't even been published yet. I've got a late birthday, because my Mom got lucky at a meteorological convention, and they always hold those in the summer and fall, 'cause the weather's easier then.
After we'd talked for a while, Meghan asked if she could touch my wings. That was kind of an odd thing to ask, and maybe a little forward, but I told her as long as she was gentle it was okay, and I stretched one out across her lap so that she could.
The feeling of her fingers on my wings was really weird, but not in a bad way. She was kind of hesitant at first, sort of poking at them, until she got up a bit of confidence, and then she lightly ran her fingers over them, feeling my feathers. To be fair, I stretched out my other wing, to give Lisa a chance to feel it, and of course then Becky wanted to touch them as well.
I was a little tense; I don't know them all that well, after all. But I felt in my heart that they were kind people, and after a little bit I relaxed. Maybe it was foolish, but it was nice to have two warm bodies against mine. I don't think humans touch each other enough, which might be why they're grumpy a lot.
Before I left, I asked them if I could come over sometime and use their bathtub, since I didn't have one. Meghan said that I could; that I should just call her when I wanted to use it.
All three of them were really nice, and if Amy lives with them then she must be as well. It was good to meet some new people. Meghan said I could come and watch them practice bells—I was curious about that, so I said I might. And she asked if I'd be willing come over more, and I said I would.
I hadn't realized how late it was until I was headed back to my dorm. Fortunately, it wasn't too far, and when I got there it hit me just how tired I was, so I just crawled into bed and wrapped the blankets around myself and fell right to sleep.
Hmm. I'm wondering if Silver Glow is ever going to see a college football game.
I love all the little bits about the other tribes sprinkled in here and there. It's interesting to see things from the perspective of a pony, and how she looks at the other two tribes. The bit about most pony birthdays being in Spring was cute too.
Technically, anything in Daring Do is real in their world. HOWEVER... some things aren't fully explained.
Example, the rings Ahuizotl were collecting were supposed to bring 1,000 years of heat or something. However, it never once said that it took control of the sun. So, since it only covered the valley, I'm guessing it'd create some sort of force field that acted like a super charged greenhouse effect, to keep the valley in heat no matter outside efforts.
But, they never explained that, and it'd be easy for others to misconstrue it meant something else. And since so few know that the Daring Do books are real, they likely could make similar misconceptions from the reading, eh?
My school has several of these because the entire campus is set into some hills. It can be annoying.
I do like rainy day, they've got that calm and nostalgic feel. Kinda like snowy days.
Of course some late november cold days (and even october some years) can get annoying, but most of the time? I mostly enjoy it.
Now I want to clarify that I am no expert on forest fires, or forestry in general, but cant forest fires be beneficial for the forest in general? Don't we sometimes let wildfires burn if they don't endanger/threaten human settlements? Am I wrong? What is the pony policy on such things? From what Silver Glow says I guess that letting them burn is a "bad idea."
On an unrelated note these last few chapters have been nice and heartfelt. It soothes the need for ponywords.
7061098 Not until the season starts, but when it does she ought to. That would be fun.
7060974
I think that's a very broad generalization that you are unlikely to be able to support. Counter-examples include the flourishing of mathematics under medieval Islam, including the development of the numbering system we use today.
7061170 I'm guessing pony wildlife and trees have adapted to expect no wildfires
7060974
*Alondro smirks* After she's been President for a while, and the wailing begins, I'm going to remind you of this.
Because I'm even more vindictive than she is.
7061170
Forest fires are bad in Equestria, because they already have earth ponies tending to the forest mulch build up, so forest fires that do happen can undo a lot of work and even damage the earth-pony-cultured ecology.
All the above is shallow-truth propaganda.
The truth is cultural: massive blazes will always induce hysterical panic or life-long pyromania fetishism in any ground-bound observing ponies.
In 766AD Celestia mandated stricter fire codes when an infamous pyromania cult was discovered to include the majority of the Canterlot unicorn nobility, all of whom professed their arsonist ventures to have been inspired by a single spiritual moment as they observed or escaped the arson of a notable Canterlot hotel the previous year.
7061170 Not for every kind of forest. But yes, some ecosystem are actually dependin on fire to sustain themselves.
I've actually been to WMU. Kalamazoo College, not so much.
As an aside: We're all talking about stuff that's very important to us. This stuff is close to our hearts. So this seems like a good time to plea for ponylike behavior from my fellow commenters.
Many of us are outraged that someone would hurt Silver Glow. I'm sure Silver Glow would appreciate our support! But I think she'd also be unhappy to see disharmony between us.
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Rule of thumb: If you wouldn't say something in front of Fluttershy, don't say it in front of the Internet.
That doesn't mean we can't discuss this stuff! But a gentle, thoughtful conversation is more persuasive than insulting someone you know very little about. We're all pony fans here; let's try to live up to the values of the show we spend so much time thinking about. Carry on!
7061198 While it is true, there is also the other aspects that allowed the sciences to prosper in the area:
1) The town(s) where all those scientific advances were made were very tolerant for their time. If I remember correctly that area was a rare safe haven for all who wished to live in peace and perfect their craft, regardless of any given individuals religious background. In a way that particular area of middle east was one of the most secular places of its time because the religious principles were not taken so literally
2) It all ended when some asshole decided that their religious texts weren't adhered to strictly enough. And decided to destroy it all. Humanity might never really recover from the damage done that day with how it managed to throw our progress back by a few centuries and stopped any attempts to recover for a couple of more. The area turned from the center of human invention and progress to a backwater pool of ignorance and we are still paying the price
So what MLai said is actually quite true. The more we cast aside religion and its exclusive and tribal (us vs. them) attitudes the more we progress scientifically and culturally and the more tolerant of others we tend to get. The trend just tends to be that the more power is given to religion and religious the more oppressive and intolerant they tend to become. It's a sad thing but it's what history teaches us.
Of course there are assholes among every group and I shouldn't judge religions based on theirs but it's hard for me not to observe it this way from all I have seen and read.
Sorry for that. I should not let myself get into any conversations that involve religion. Bad for my blood pressure and the comfort of others. Please forgive me if I seem to be coming on too strongly.
Another lovely chapter!
So touching the wings is a rather intimate thing for a pegasus, which isn't overly surprising really.
And now she's nervous about having let it go too far while the girls almost certainly were just curious and fascinated?
Pony social norms and human social norms. Love it.
So, more touching in general, good, touching wings, bad. How does that work?
Given the choice, I'd probably pick flight over theological discussion, but I've had far more opportunities for the latter than the former.
And yeah, I don't see noodly pastas working out well with ponies. Smaller shapes might work better.
7060974
A fair point, but Celestia is not like the above examples. Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammed preached spirituality. Celestia does not. At best, she puts forth a philosophy, but I don't know how energetically she does this. It seems like she would just give some gentle encouragements, nothing more.
Now, I do think that there would be a good number of ponies who would see her as a deity figure, I just don't think that all of them would.
7061705
I think you're right on your first point, but the second is an overly simplistic generalization. Keep in mind, in Medieval Europe, if you wanted a formal education of any kind, you needed to go to the church, to a monastery most likely, because they were the only ones who thought that reading and learning were important. Out of that tradition came university which we all know and love today.
Also remember that secular scientists can be just as rigid and stubborn when presented with new theories. So the conflict is not so much Science vs Religion but Stubborn Orthodoxy vs Freethinking.
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And that is a large part of what has held us back for so long. Though it is also true that back in the medieval days there was no nation, that I'm aware of, that could have supported a more wide spread proper education. Please also remember that it wasn't a straightforward or easy path for the church to lose enough power for the secular sciences to have the chance of properly emerging.
I would rather avoid going into detail about this here as it would require us both to write several fics long comments to speak of this extensively enough to satisfy both our points. I can see what you meant and on large part I agree. There are several details I disagree with though and it will take me more time than I can devote for it now to filter out my own biases related to this issue.
Please remember that what you have described here is a prime example of a bad scientist. In scientific circles defending your pet theory when all evidence points against it is frowned upon. A good scientist is one who despite having worked on a theory for all his adult life is capable of accepting his/her loss and honestly congratulate the one who debunked his/her theories (with evidence and tests).
I'll admit that there are so called scientists that fit your description but scientific community tends to look down on them for such behavior.
I'm also willing to admit that I have simplified things maybe even too much. These things are so complicated that we could spend the rest of our lives describing these situations and author several books and still only scratch the surface of this issue.
7061244
I hear that incident was started by some stupid with a flare spell.
One way Silver can get back into an early schedule is make more friends with the jogger and other early risers so it'll motivate her to get back into her routine to greet them. Don't know why I care that she's sleeping in more, just does for some reason.
7061170
Fynbos actually requires a good fire every decade or so. Some types can survive it (and then regrow their outer branches later), other types the seeds don't germinate until they get heated up enough (and then when they do germinate, it's in a field full of really fertile ash with very little growing nearby).
7061807 As Celefin mentions, it may be an intimate thing, but to think of it in practical terms, wings, specifically flight feathers are easy to mess up and probably a pain to get properly fixed. If you've ever played with a big flight feather, like one would make a feather pen out of, you can see how the individual barbs mesh together like velcro. It's relatively easy to pull those barbs out of alignment, but a little tricky to get them to mesh together properly again. I can imagine feeling anxious if somebody asked to poke around your delicately preened flight surfaces with their big meaty sausage fingers.
7061705
My faith matters to me a lot, so I was about to get up on my high horse and defend it. But then I realized that while I disagree with the first sentence in that quote, the second sentence is actually very true.
Communities of faith are capable of great good. Countless hospitals and schools, as well as organizations like the YMCA, Salvation Army, and Habitat for Humanity owe their existence to organized religion. I've personally watched churches come together around hurting people and help them get back on their feet. Religion should not be us-vs-them; it should advocate love, help people to realize their potential, and bring people closer to God and each other.
However, I do see a clear trend that giving religions political power tends to corrupt them. The degree to which religious institutions are allowed to command people who do not share their beliefs is the degree to which they become tribalistic and start thinking about "protecting the faith".
TL;DR Don't discount religion as a force for good, but don't give it control over your country either.
7062218
Likewise, most of the overeager, power-grasping zealots we're discussing in this thread are not highly regarded by their fellow faithful. If you talk to a moderate Muslim about Isis, you'll see how angry and disappointed they are at how these monsters are misrepresenting their faith. It's a lot easier to get on TV by screwing up than by doing something good. Hate zips around the world while love is still getting out of bed.
7063071 You sir/madam have just earned my respect. Most of the time when I bring up my opinions about religions the reactions are butthurt to put it mildly but you have managed to keep things civil and respectful and for that I am grateful.
I'm well aware that your average religious person is far better than the overeager preachers etc. but from my point of view the average religious person also enables those assholes by not standing up to oppose the oppressive attitude and hateful rhetoric of the loudest screamer. Just staying silent lends power to those who claim the average believer to be among their numbers. And when it comes to your average muslim vs. Isis. To me this is a very problematic issue.
On one hand until the muslim community at large steps up and shows us (with word and action) that they do not approve acts of terror their silence will heavily imply approval. Some muslim communities have done this and I welcome them with open arms and my full respect but other communities still remain silent.
On the other hand, in large areas of the muslim world any opposition of Isis will get you killed as individuals. Standing up in such conditions requires integrity and courage more, than someone like myself, who has grown up in a peaceful country, can even imagine. Anyone capable of doing so deserves all the help we can offer and at least my deepest respect.
Fear is a big factor in these things for everyone and should not be disregarded.
So yeah that is a rather complicated issue.
Also my issue here is not exclusively with the way some fringe case believers behave but also with some of the edicts of most religions. The 3 main Abrahamic ones get a large dose of my contempt simply because I have grown up surrounded by one of them and have been forced to hear more about them than I have ever wanted. This is part of the reason I must ask that you forgive my attitude towards religions. I have simply had to deal with them to the point where I have hard time staying reasonable every once in a while.
I really need to get my ranting in check. Sorry for to long post once again.
It was disappointing that there was nobody in the chapel offices. I would be interested in reading how peoples of different religions would view and interact with a Pony, especially in regard to the use of magic. Hopefully the chapel hosts more than just Catholic Priests, otherwise our heroine might just get a snoot full of 'hell fire and brimstone' and 'abomination' yelled at her.
7061098
true football or american football ?
7063160
In turn, I apologize for the harm done to you by people who should have known better.
Religion (the set of rules, theories, and organizations) may be considered separate from faith (the central decision to believe in God and what God stands for). Faith sometimes gets overshadowed by religion. Sometimes religion spreads without bringing faith along with it.
Love is intended to be the core of the Christian faith (I can't speak for Islam or Judaism), but loving people is hard and messy and involves self-sacrifice and sometimes uncomfortable introspection, so people often just fall back on the rules and patterns that religion provides. That allows them to be part of a community even when their connection with God is malfunctioning. But if too many people do that too often, the church zombifies, changing from something that's full of life into something that looks similar from the outside but will eat your brains if you're not careful.
You can think of Christianity as a giant mecha: it enables the operator to enact great good or evil, depending on what's in their heart. Since its intent is to provide a connection with God, it should gradually transform the operator into a more loving person; sometimes that happens, and sometimes not.
Your point is a good one, but it can be hard to figure out how to stand up to those people without becoming like them. Hatred can be spread en masse more quickly than love, because hurting people is always faster and easier than helping them. But I agree that good Christians should be doing more to counteract hatred in our country and amongst ourselves. (I can't speak for other countries or religions.)
7063285
Yes, though I wonder why you're repeating yourself.
7063417
I think what we call true football you call it soccer, but really, only in the US is football played like some sort of rugby with armor
7061198
That's not a counter-example, but rather a supporting example. Study more closely into the role of religion in the empire during its golden age, and then during its decline.
7061230
I don't support Hillary at all. But I'm not paranoid enough to think that she's any different from other presidential politicians we've had for the past 100 years.
7063071
My favourite statement of that viewpoint is this quote:
7061098
Eventually, she will. It's not too late for her to see the Superbowl, either.
7061109
Thank you! Not enough stories do much with the differences between them, besides the obvious wings/horns/neither, in my opinion.
7061120
I disagree. I personally think that a lot of Daring Do's adventures are dramatized for the books, although they're somewhat based on reality. (In some ways, very much like this story.) But that's just my opinion; certainly the fact that she is real and Equestria is filled with monsters and strange magic makes it far more likely to be real.
7061181
Superbowl! Not the same as seeing a game in person (no way she can score tickets to the big game), but that at least will be an introduction to the sport for her.
7061135
As if the entrances on multiple floors weren't bad enough, a lot of the buildings at K had been added on to so many times there there would be stairways that only went up one floor, or odd little routes you had to take to get from one place to another.
7061161
Different seasons have a different feel to the rain, at least in memory. Spring rains bring the promise of the rebirth of the land, summer storms seem like they come in fast and leave just as quickly, while autumn rains are a good time to huddle up and stay inside. There's really no kind of weather I don't enjoy.
7061170
Thank you!
Simple answer, yes. It's a really complicated subject, though. There are species of plants which benefit from forest fires, and I think that a good fire also changes the soil pH. Ditto for grass fires . . . I'm not really an expert on the subject, though.
Keeping the soil damp wouldn't totally prevent fires, either, but it would keep them from spreading quickly.
7061395
Next time you're at WMU, all you've got to do is go a little bit north, and you'll find K. Look for the bell tower--it's hard to miss.
7061609
Well said!
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7061807
Depending on where you're going with intimate, yes. It's more of an expression of trust. When she stretches her wings out and lets the girls handle them, she's potentially given up her best escape route if something goes wrong--she'll have to get her wings clear before she can fly away. So it's sort of a deeply ingrained phobia to have her wings bound in any way when she's in an unknown situation. That would probably be the first thing a predator would go for, after all.
It's not quite submissive behavior, like when a dog exposes its belly, but it's close. 7062625 raises a good point as well; there's the possibility of humans messing up her flight feathers, and her having to preen them before she could fly again. I think that's less likely, though; most real birds that I'm aware of can be handled by humans (if they'll let you, that is) and assuming the human is reasonably careful, they won't do any damage to the feathers.
7061963
I second both of those things. Although I'm not really that much of a fan of commercial flying.
Or uncooked . . . now I have this great image of Silver Glow eating a ramen block dry, maybe with a little bit of the seasoning sprinkled on it for flavor.
7062091
What's the difference between the two? I mean, in many ways philosophy and spirituality are similar (Aquinas is certainly on both sides of the coin), and the argument has been made in the comments that the pony's religion is Harmony, which is something that Celestia preaches, sometimes gently and sometimes forcefully.
I'm not disagreeing that there are differences between them; one of the biggest being that Celestia probably has to compromise sometimes because she's actually running a country, while Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammed weren't. On the other hand, like them, she's playing the long game.
I think that there's such a gulf between the two cultures that it's hard to make a perfect comparison between the two worlds, but then again the comments might prove me wrong.
7062431
True, them or other early risers. Going to bed earlier will help her too (and not drinking a bunch of coffee when she plays Durak).
7063071
I agree with you so very much here. I think perhaps the distinction should be made between individual faith and religion as a whole? Even the Methodist church can't totally agree on its doctrine.
Yes, I agree with you there.
Much like how I'd imagine most moderate Christians don't feel that the Westboro Baptist Church is speaking for them. I know I don't--they're a hate group that has only read one or two verses of the Bible, and doesn't understand what the rest of it says.
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(a little irreverent, but the message is clear)
7063283
There aren't any school officials on campus who will shout hellfire and brimstone at her. Off campus, or for that matter with some less-tolerant students, she takes her chances.
7064510
That is a perfect statement.
You wouldn't happen to have read Robert Frost have you?
7718699
I have indeed, among others.
I really hope there won't be any Witch Hunt...
The entire concept of Witch Hunt is stupid and more in line with "In Service of the Devil" than any sort of "God's work".
It was human who wanted to blame others for bad things happening to them. It was human who purposefully misinterpreted the words in the Bible. It was human who added/subtracted and twisted the words of God.
God doesn't ask you to crush, kill, destroy, steal, rape, torture, having prejudices, etc...againt anyone.
And yet...People did it anyway (still doing actually). They did the Devil's works for them.
7735506
Not from the pastor on campus--she's really cool, and really non-judgemental.
I bet you are
No idea if Kalamazoo has that "fifth street" kind of silliness too, but overall, yea, USA street names often show very little imagination
You wanted to know about God? Caffeine: the most worshiped deity on earth
There are many, many un-ergonomic ways of hanging in a chair
Less lice, though. Kids touch each other a lot, and that's the reason they're the primary victims of lice.
That's... hardly a guarantee. I mean, here's a person who doesn't even take a minute off from homework to come and meet the extraterrestrial that's visiting
Guess she wrote this entry the next morning, then,hm?
(Blargh! More poetry links I can't follow on the train! )
[Added after arrival to Sweet Connected Space: Wow, that guy has written some intriguing, weird poems.]
Remarks and Corrections:
> I might not have even thought of it, except that sitting on the front steps of the dining hall and looking at the snow-covered lawn and the bare trees stretching to the sky, waiting for spring to come.
Something seems incomplete about that sentence. The "except that" doesn't connect to anything.
> Right at the beginning of class I read the poem, and he smiled at me and said that he thought it was a lovely poem as well.
You never actually specify the "he"... I assume you mean the poetry teacher?
> and if Amy lives with them than she must be as well.
"[then] she must be"
8020467
Broncos are a better mascot anyways. Who gives a crap about a lousy little hornet?
Kalamazoo doesn't; however, when you get outside of town, they have lettered avenues running east/west and numbered streets running north/south.
Jackson, MI, is a prizewinner in trolly street names; one of the intersections is West North St. and North West St.
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There are. I've always liked sideways for cushy chairs with armrests, just to be a rebel.
Ponies probably either have good lice removal spells (and flea removal), or else a lot of ponies have lice and fleas (which is something that doesn't come up in HiE/PoE stories. I'm gonna put that in a HiE/PoE story someday.
Yeah, well, Silver Glow's still figuring out how Earth works.
Yeah . . . my thought on that is that she writes little bits in it when she has time--between classes, or whenever.
I had thought about putting the actual poems in the author's note or in a comment. I didn't because many of them are quite long, and also a lot of them are still copyrighted.
You're right Correction made; thank you!
Correct, Conrad.
Dumb homonyms.
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Wow
Yeah, I do understand your reasons. But I still lament missing out on them when reading the rest
...but you're still leaving it like that? lol.