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It was the word fellow, being how Roic thinks of himself IIRC, that made me think of him.But Taura had spoken to him, almost normally. Maybe... maybe there were such things as second chances. If a fellow was brave enough to take them.
Who speaks?By the way, XXX, have I expressed myself yet, XXX, on what a genuinely dumbshit piece of grandstanding that is?
It implies I might be there long enough to need all of them. 
Yes, correct.JKCade wrote:"By the way, XXX, have I expressed myself yet, XXX, on what a genuinely dumbshit piece of grandstanding that is?"
Who speaks? Commodore Ky Tung.
Who is XXX? Miles Vorkosigan. In this instance, Tung is referring to him as "Sir".
What's the piece of grandstanding? Miles has let it be known he will be on the last shuttle up from the Dagoola IV Top Security Prison Camp #3.
Sorry, correct answer to a wrong question. You answered "The last of whom?", while I asked for "how many?", i.e. an exact number. Try again.JKCade wrote:Bonus question: the last of how many by then? If I understand the question correctly, there were - more or less - a thousand men and women left on the ground when this conversation took place, "at the end of the last wave".(the note in blue font is mine)
It was my first too. But my copy depicts a planet and a ship in atmospheric re-entry, while the blurbs on the back tickled my fanny. After reading it, I too was irreversibly hooked.JKCade wrote:This is in the story "The Borders of Infinity", in the book, "Borders of Infinity". This is the first Miles book I ever bought, in a Hastings bookstore in Abilene, Texas in 1990 or 1991. It was the cover art that caught my attention, the image of the woman's non-spacesuit wearing arms reaching out to an astronaut made me wonder what was going on inside the book. Little did I know that this book would be the start of an obsession!
Well, you can say that again. But a freudian shrink would write volumes on this.... errr... slip.E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote:(...)while the blurbs on the back tickled my fanny. (...)
EDIT: I meant "fancy", of course.
Oh, you know, a slip in time saves nine ... whatever, as the paraphrased ancient proverb dictates.voralfred wrote:Well, you can say that again. But a freudian shrink would write volumes on this.... errr... slip.E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote:(...)while the blurbs on the back tickled my fanny. (...)
EDIT: I meant "fancy", of course.
Not just in Flemish, in French and English too! So I just recycled with you my previous joke with DarbE Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote:(...)
Mind you, in Flemish, slip (and its modern diminutive slipje) also means a woman's intimate garment. (...)
The correct answer to "the last of how many people?" would be 10,000. Lois did not state an exactly precise number of people to be shuttled to orbit in the last wave. The number of POW's to be finally lifted (1,000) is an approximation. Also planetside, there are the Dendarii troops and Miles himself.voralfred wrote:... More on topic: what is, exactly, your bonus question? Wasn't "one thousand left" the correct number of POWs still on the ground when that conversation took place? Why didn't you grant James the bonus, too?
"I lost my perspective for a little while, it's true," Xxx admitted. "I've got it back."
I've found your missing point.JKCade wrote:... I "lost" a point in the last two weeks. ...
Last of the shuttles to go up, for Miles to be on it?E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote: With my question "the last of how many?", I'm asking for an exactly precise amount, not necessarily people, which can be deduced from the text.
So what else can be counted to an exact number?
You're close, but still not quite exact.voralfred wrote:... At the time of the conversation, Ky suggested that only seven more shuttles land and leave, and Miles insisted on the full number of twelve shuttles, and of course he got his way. ...
Well, if everyone tthinks the 12 shuttles should earn me the bous I won't complain.JKCade wrote:Very kind of you Voralfred, but I don't think I deserve the bonus in any case. Anyway, fancy, fanny, it all amounts to the same thing, in the end. Heh heh heh.
JKCade wrote: Next quote:
"I lost my perspective for a little while, it's true," Xxx admitted. "I've got it back."
Book?
Xxx?
Who is Xxx speaking to?
James
"I lost my perspective for a little while, it's true," Xxx admitted. "I've got it back."
"A bit late," sneered Yyy.
Well, EPS, at the time of that post, you were really not yet allowed to answer, but you've been allowed for a full day already. So the Teach is picking you (since myself have no idea, otherwise you can be sure I'd have answered by now)E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote:I know it, I know, I know!
Please , Teach, pick me!
Aw, I'm not allowed to answer yet.
SHEESH!
My solution was wrong!voralfred wrote:... Well, EPS, at the time of that post, you were really not yet allowed to answer, but you've been allowed for a full day already. ...
