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[Vattic]

I'm about 2/3rds of the way through The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson.

Spoiler: just in case (click to show/hide)

The setting is the main star and I could get past the verbose and dull prose for it. I realise the sexist content is a product of it's time (1902), but it's hindering my enjoyment to hear him go on at length about physically disciplining his love interest and much else besides. Mostly it's just his thoughts that are terrible, but also his actions: calling her his "slave-baby", wrapping her knuckles, whipping her and the like. To rub salt into the wounds he keeps saying that I'd understand if I'd found my true love.

[ChairmanPoo]

... I dont recall those....

anyhow, TBH The Night Land was decent as a setting, but the action itself is boring. It'd probably make a decent RPG or DF-like setting.

[Vattic]

Spoiler: Some examples (click to show/hide)

And I caught her up again; and I kist her, and I told her that I did be surely her Master, in verity, and she mine own Baby-Slave. And truly you shall not laugh upon me; for I was so human as any; and a man doth talk this way with his maid.

And in verity a young man doth want that he whip his maid and kiss her, and all in the one moment. And, indeed, he to have delight in both.

And indeed I pulled a small branch from a tree that did be near, to be for a switch as you shall whip a boy with; and I held her with my left hand, and in verity I laid the switch thrice very sharp across her pretty shoulders, that she know all that she did need to know.

[Max White]

Maybe he was just into bondage?
Back then sexuality wasn't very talked about, so I imagine people just assumed everybody thought the same way they did.

[Graknorke]

Reading (and about) Time Cube makes me feel incredibly stupid. It's as if there's a message laid out right there but the words aren't written in a way that I can understand them.

[Max White]

And now, before your very eyes, Max White explains...TIME CUBE!!!!
First and for most, the author of Time Cube is both very mentally ill, sexist and racist. He suffers from serious paranoia, so when he starts blaming random people like the government for things, don't feel stupid for not understanding why, there is no reason why.

Now, one day a very sick man noticed something wonderful. There are in fact four days at the same time! That is to say, while it is mid day here, it is midnight on the over side of the world, and morning and afternoon in other places. He split the earth into four sections for each time phase and called it the 'time cube', then accused those who promote the idea of the 'day' as liars.
What he didn't realize is that four time phases is an arbitrary number, it works with any number. He could have used 4, 7 or even... 24. Most likely in his impaired mental state, four just seemed like the ideal number because squares.
The idea behind time cube is very well known and used, but instead of four time zones, we use 24 around the world. Each time zone is separate by half an hour. We could have used 4, but 24 works better.

So there you go, there is nothing special about time cube, no reason to feel stupid or like you are missing something. It is just the ranting of a very sick man.


Eht Namuh, on the other hand, clearly contains the secrets of the universe!

[penguinofhonor]

don't feel stupid for not understanding why, there is no reason why.

I feel like this is the only part of that post that it was necessary to type.

[Vattic]

Maybe he was just into bondage?
Back then sexuality wasn't very talked about, so I imagine people just assumed everybody thought the same way they did.

Perhaps. I have wondered similar but it doesn't really fit with the other stuff he has said.

[Graknorke]

[Quote goes here]

It's not the actual things that he said, it's something about the words themselves. I don't know if it's the layout, the unusual underlines and spacing, or what; but reading it gives me a headache and I can't do much more than just look at the page. I think that it may be a terrorist plot to cause brain damage to the western world.

[Max White]

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[ChairmanPoo]

Reading (and about) Time Cube makes me feel incredibly stupid. It's as if there's a message laid out right there but the words aren't written in a way that I can understand them.

Yeah, but has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[Reelya]

The idea behind time cube is very well known and used, but instead of four time zones, we use 24 around the world. Each time zone is separate by half an hour. We could have used 4, but 24 works better.

Umm...if you have 24 timezones, they'd be separated by 1 hour each, not half an hour.

Timecube is pretty good, but i read a book once (Harmonic 33) by a guy called Bruce Cathie, which was almost up to that level of crazy, and actually published. In that book he comes up with a whole new atomic theory based drawing arbitrary lines around the globe through UFO sighting sites, and a new Table Of The Elements based on the shape of the pyramids (his triangular table lacks any of the explanatory power about valencies, of the regular square ones though)

[Loud Whispers]

Lee goes on the streets to make a documentary about life for the homeless.

He dies.