tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post3523731672726394541..comments2024-03-21T18:54:06.548-07:00Comments on Old Enough to Know Better: Once More into the Bardo ...Steve Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-1627728209014406682009-01-14T16:23:00.000-08:002009-01-14T16:23:00.000-08:00Update:Gotten more responses -- about half of the ...Update:<BR/><BR/>Gotten more responses -- about half of the readers have responded thus far, which is a pretty good rate of return -- probably not everybody who got a copy will get back to me, if experience holds true.<BR/><BR/>I'm getting some good stuff, which I am incorporating as it shows up. Another week or so, I expect I'll have enough in that there won't be any surprises left.<BR/><BR/>As a general FYI, if I put something that is historically recorded into a book -- like the trek over the mountain passes from Tibet into India, it is as accurate as I can make it. I stretch some things for fiction, such as what Jampel did on the mountain, of course.<BR/><BR/>To the reader who pointed out that there were surveillance satellites that might have spotted the lamas, not as far as I can tell. The only countries capable of lifting stuff into orbit in '59 were the U.S. and the U.S.S.R -- and between the two of them, they had only put five up by then, not counting the moon flybys, and those sats didn't do much of anything but go round and round and beep and count cosmic rays. No optics capable of picking up a bunch of folks traipsing about in the mountains to say, Oh, look, it's the Dalai Lama ...<BR/><BR/>(Of those sats, all but one had already dropped out of the sky by 1959. And the Chinese didn't get anything up until 1970.)<BR/><BR/>The rewrites are progressing -- some things have been added, others trimmed, and bits here and there explained perhaps a bit better.<BR/><BR/>I'll wait a bit and then do a posting with a final update explaining what I did and why, for those who might be curious.Steve Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-7485618309417321302009-01-12T12:48:00.000-08:002009-01-12T12:48:00.000-08:00If only we had cut in paste back when writing term...If only we had cut in paste back when writing term papers in college, eh?steve-vhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03889100992443991077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-86767286716835559682009-01-12T12:17:00.000-08:002009-01-12T12:17:00.000-08:00So we have gun porn, knife porn, guitar porn, sila...So we have gun porn, knife porn, guitar porn, silat porn, and computer porn. Oh yeah, and a sex scene...<BR/><BR/>BTW, if you put in a knife training scene, don't forget the red silicone spatulas.Tiel Aisha Ansarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994169558252043919noreply@blogger.com