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The Doomfollowers of Coramonde

Brian Daley

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi liked it affiliate
Mind candy: 1970s-vintage secondary-world epic fantasy, which is also a portal fantasy with a US Army armored personnel carrier sorcerously detached from duty in Vietnam. It's enjoyable in its own terms, but three things strike me about it. First, all of the characters have agency --- the inhabitants of the fantasy world don't just react to the Americans who come through the portal, they pursue their own lives and agendas.

on bactra.org · 31 May 2019

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.