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| -rw-r--r-- | faith/age-of-irresponsibility.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | faith/aristotle-unities.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | faith/beethoven-euro.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | faith/singularoddities-review-escape.rst | 70 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | faith/the_problem_of_gaiman.rst | 4 |
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diff --git a/faith/age-of-irresponsibility.rst b/faith/age-of-irresponsibility.rst index 830749f..8144f37 100644 --- a/faith/age-of-irresponsibility.rst +++ b/faith/age-of-irresponsibility.rst @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ that he runs his candidacy just to resolve some of his personal issues and to make more money for covering his bankrupted business, and that he actually does not want to be the President of US at all. Or perhaps it is_ just a conspiracy_ to get_ -otherwise unelecteable Mrs. Clinton to the White House. The most +otherwise unelecteable Mrs Clinton to the White House. The most crazy thing about this is that sometimes I am not sure whether it is not possible. diff --git a/faith/aristotle-unities.rst b/faith/aristotle-unities.rst index c47c859..fa2a34d 100644 --- a/faith/aristotle-unities.rst +++ b/faith/aristotle-unities.rst @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ the success of the French author `Jules Verne`_ was in his publisher and editor `Pierre-Jules Hetzel`_, who forced Verne to cut his novels sometimes up to the half in length and sometimes completely rewrite the main plot of the novel. When Hetzel died -in 1886, the quality of Verne’s novels went noticeably down. Mrs. +in 1886, the quality of Verne’s novels went noticeably down. Mrs Rowling herself complained that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was published in too much haste and a way too long for her taste. For the record, that’s 38 chapters (average length of diff --git a/faith/beethoven-euro.rst b/faith/beethoven-euro.rst index c2b4cf3..bdbe394 100644 --- a/faith/beethoven-euro.rst +++ b/faith/beethoven-euro.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Comment I posted_ on the First Things blog_. I have just returned from the open air concert_ of the Czech Philharmonic in the Prague Castle, which finished with the last movement of the Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. I would really love this to be played -in some great park in the center of London today. Perhaps even Mrs. +in some great park in the centre of London today. Perhaps even Mrs. Murphy would understand that there is perhaps something good even in Germans, but way more importantly she might understand that struggle for the brotherhood of people is something which is worthy of the fight. diff --git a/faith/singularoddities-review-escape.rst b/faith/singularoddities-review-escape.rst index 0469bbb..071e524 100644 --- a/faith/singularoddities-review-escape.rst +++ b/faith/singularoddities-review-escape.rst @@ -23,16 +23,16 @@ horcruxes. Unfortunately, with the contiuation of both stories, it seems to me that the author lapsed more and more into some of the worst stereotypes in the genre. -First of all, before saying anything else, I really liked Mr. and -Mrs.-to-be Percy Weasley themselves. It is really delight to read -their story (and of course, it doesn’t hurt they slip for weekend -in Prague, where I am from :)). I really liked they both knew -they are dancing around some elephants in the room, but they so -much wanted to work together, they were willing to trust each -other even against the evidence, which would cause distrust. -I really liked Percy discovering joys of the Muggle world (and -I really hope he will eventually buy that set of the sixteenth -century goblets for Audrey, now when he can explain her how come +First of all, before saying anything else, I really liked Mr and +Mrs-to-be Percy Weasley themselves. It is really delight to read +their story (and of course, it doesn’t hurt they slip for weekend +in Prague, where I am from :)). I really liked they both knew +they are dancing around some elephants in the room, but they so +much wanted to work together, they were willing to trust each +other even against the evidence, which would cause distrust. +I really liked Percy discovering joys of the Muggle world (and +I really hope he will eventually buy that set of the sixteenth +century goblets for Audrey, now when he can explain her how come they are so well preserved). I was less enchanted by Harry & Hermione. Even ignoring the @@ -46,23 +46,23 @@ grace for her persona. This being a Harmony story, it seems that every alternative universe shipping inevitably leads to bashing persons which are really likeable in the books, most usually Ron Weasley. It seemed -in the beginning of “Escape”, that this author managed to avoid -the trait, but it goes downhill pretty fast, and in the end Mrs. -Weasley, Arthur, and of course Ron are sworn enemies of the good -guys and gals. And it is happily overlooked that many relational -troubles which blow to their face in the end are caused by the -unexplicable relational idiocy of Harry & Hermione. Why in the -world, they haven’t contacted Ron, their supposedly best friend, -immediately after they got means of communications (mirrors) from -the Weasley twins? I like the Weasley twins in the story, but why -couldn‘t be Ron included as well? Couldn’t the twins smuggle one -mirror to the castle? And still they haven’t bothered to send him -a mirror when they met Ginny, Neville, and Luna in Hogsmead? Of -course, the only reason seems to be that the author may indulge -more in the Ron-bashing (there is no way the Ron from books was -not fed up with Lavender after few weeks of snogging; and -actually, he broke up with her because he looked for more in -books, not necessarily because of Hermione; that is more the +in the beginning of “Escape”, that this author managed to avoid +the trait, but it goes downhill pretty fast, and in the end Mrs +Weasley, Arthur, and of course Ron are sworn enemies of the good +guys and gals. And it is happily overlooked that many relational +troubles which blow to their face in the end are caused by the +unexplicable relational idiocy of Harry & Hermione. Why in the +world, they haven’t contacted Ron, their supposedly best friend, +immediately after they got means of communications (mirrors) from +the Weasley twins? I like the Weasley twins in the story, but why +couldn‘t be Ron included as well? Couldn’t the twins smuggle one +mirror to the castle? And still they haven’t bothered to send him +a mirror when they met Ginny, Neville, and Luna in Hogsmead? Of +course, the only reason seems to be that the author may indulge +more in the Ron-bashing (there is no way the Ron from books was +not fed up with Lavender after few weeks of snogging; and +actually, he broke up with her because he looked for more in +books, not necessarily because of Hermione; that is more the movie Ron again). Harry and Hermione spent five years (or at least summers) in the @@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ Harry can blame himself for it. What’s wrong with him? [#]_ I believe that both Professors Dumbledore and Snape are reponsible for the death of Sirius Black (perhaps they should be even criminally responsible for neglect) more than anybody else -on The Light Side (the biggest share of guilt goes to -Mrs. Lestrange, of course). +on The Light Side (the biggest share of guilt goes to +Mrs Lestrange, of course). Having said that, I just cringe when I see how Singularoddities deals poorly with description of flawed personalities. How it is @@ -149,12 +149,12 @@ was originally meant exactly as Weasleys were afraid he was — a spy on Weasleys and Harry), but he is really an interesting person. Well done. -I like both of these stories (probably more “Mr. and Mrs. Percy -Weasley”, but obviously the second take is better than the first -attempt), they are probably the best AU stories of the Harry -Potter universe I have read so far (if it has not been obvious -already, I prefer canon-based stories), but all the good things -on these stories, makes me even more frustrated with things which +I like both of these stories (probably more “Mr and Mrs Percy +Weasley”, but obviously the second take is better than the first +attempt), they are probably the best AU stories of the Harry +Potter universe I have read so far (if it has not been obvious +already, I prefer canon-based stories), but all the good things +on these stories, makes me even more frustrated with things which could be so much better. Oh well. .. [#] supporting Harry/Harmione pairing diff --git a/faith/the_problem_of_gaiman.rst b/faith/the_problem_of_gaiman.rst index 1cac45b..d60378d 100644 --- a/faith/the_problem_of_gaiman.rst +++ b/faith/the_problem_of_gaiman.rst @@ -47,5 +47,5 @@ after that, and I still don’t know exactly why I did it. And yes, it hurt me for many years, practically until I joined a community of Christians. -I am not sure why Mr. Gaiman and Mrs. Rowling couldn’t see it, -and I am probably in no position to speculate about that. +I am not sure why Mr Gaiman and Mrs Rowling couldn’t see it, and +I am probably in no position to speculate about that. |