I need to find the passage in which Valentine (I think it was her) is describing philotes. The one I am looking for is the one in which the character describes lovers lying next to each-other feeling as though they were one, and that actually being the case because of philotic bonding. Unfortunately...

On of the funniest ways I have ever heard bisexuality described was something I overheard at a bar. This guy said, "I don't really think of myself as being bi. I am just very sexual, and not very picky."

Done. I always like helping out with research projects.

(On a side note)

I LOVE your user name Eaquae Legit. But it has been so long since I have had a Latin class that I am struggling with the little tag-line below it. Is it "Drive that which drives you"? In a sort of 'don't be mastered by anything' kind of way?

Ha ha. I wouldn't worry too much about staying on topic. That's one of the benefits of the Off topic forums, in my opinion. It allows very stream-of-consciousness discussions.

Man, I wish my high school had had Ender's Game in the curriculum.

Fun Fun! Do you work for a company that I might have heard of?

The extra texture that stubble provides may be a turn off to some girls while kissing, but it works wonders on other areas of the body.

I'll be sure to tell her this. See if she's willing to give it a try.

Cool! So fledgling authors come to you, trembling nervous wrecks with manuscripts in their hands, and you decide whether or not they have to go back to working at Starbucks?

I have to admit, I am going to feel like you are judging my grammar from now on.

I think that book has very clear themes: the ineptitude of government and survival most notably.

Got me there. What do you do in the publishing industry?

Ha ha ha. I imagine you are quite lost. I moved this over from the EnderVerse forum. It came from thread in which we were discussing EiE. Are you talking about themes in literature? Metaphors that run throughout the work? Yes. Whether or not themes belong in books? Whether themes make books better o...

For whatever reason, I read this like "Happy Together", and so now I'm listening/watching this again, and it's great. You'll have to forgive my cultural ignorance, but is that actually a Soviet military orchestra or is that just their shtick? I mean, obviously the guys with the hair and t...

The author's influences would always seep in unconsciously unless they were extremely good at getting rid of them. Actually, now that I think about it, I remember being absolutely floored that OSC could write so convincingly the views of an Atheist character (Bean) for so long. I guess that is more...

Plus, girls seem to take to the stubble. My girl doesn't. It's a shame too, because I kind of like the stubbled "nerf-herder" look. But for her, the stubble is just too pokey. It's fine if I have a full beard, because that is soft hair. And it's fine if I'm clean shaven, because that is s...

This particular branch of the discussion began when someone was complaining that the motif of family life made him apprehensive about the Shadow series and EiE because a book having a motif reminded him of reading done in school. My initial point was that the reason you read a lot of books with moti...

Okay, so you read and analyze some books in school because they remain relevant to contemporary social matters, and others because they have a timeless appeal. That's fair enough, but I don't really see what point you're trying to make or what you mean to discuss. :? I mean to discuss the reasons f...

wth? You read books with motifs in school because then you can analyze their effect on society and such.

I heartily disagree. But as this is pretty far off-topic, let's continue the discussion here: http://www.philoticweb.net/phpBB2/viewt ... 8565#58565

wth? You read books with motifs in school because then you can analyze their effect on society and such. I disagree. I mean, sure the more blatant books like Animal Farm and Crime and Punishment are important with regards to world events and opinions in the time periods in which they were published...

I'm a Buddhist, and I participate in a Sunday morning discussion group that we call Sangha. It is basically a group in which we discuss various aspects of Buddhism, what they mean to us, and how they apply to the world around us. Being the youngest in the group (a ripe, virile 21), not to mention by...

Not every person WANTS to get married and have babies Humans are in a unique evolutionary position. We are the only creatures to have thrown off the shackles of natural environment. We no longer have to evolve to survive in the harsh natural world, because our environment is the culture in which we...

It may be because I am a man in love and not a slave to my hormones, but I thought that the "get married and have kids" theme was quite nice. If you'll recall, it started back in CoTM, when Olhado and Ender are discussing Olhado's only goals in life being related to raising his family. Tha...

All of the nagging and lecturing took away from the plot. There WAS no plot, just OSC taking over characters to nag about marriage and children and monogamy. :lol: :lol: :lol: How exactly would you define plot? My dictionary calls it a sequence of events in a narrative. Sounds like it could be used...

I didn't perceive Dorabella as a conflicted character at all. To me, she is never a "triumphant, loving mother." She is only ever a miserable person who pretends to be happy with such effort that her daughter gets sick of it. Keeping the grandmother(Isabella?) away from Alessandra is never...

You try to convine your wife to name your first child Andrew. She knows why and refuses. Ah... the names that I have suggested to my wife...If only she didn't know me so well, I might have chosen from Bruce, Richard, Andrew, Julian, Harold, Peter, Tim, Malcolm... I only got Gabriel to be considered...

I can't believe I am getting sucked into this. I usually try to avoid these kinds of things. Disclaimer: I've never read Artemis fowl. All that I know about it comes from what I have read in the posts in this thread. I just think that he realized how impossible it was to survive, and that their was ...

What the heck was the "Egg"? We are discussing the book Ender in Exile. It is (to my knowledge) the newest addition to the EnderVerse. It was published November of last year. The Egg is discussed in Chapter 4 when the captain of Ender's colony ship is giving him a tour and explaining how ...

I remember the first time I read through the Speaker series. Every time it talked about how much someone revered The Hive Queen and the Hegemon, or referenced how it had become the equivalent of a classic piece of literature, I wished that it were a real book that I could read. I kept thinking that ...

so i stared it and at first was like, What the Heck?!?! I mean, starting with a killing was way weird for me (remember i was 12 at the time.) If you didn't make it very far, how did you know that Stilson died? Or is there another killing that I don't remember? That being said, I'm glad you picked i...

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The Hive Queens do have some regard for individual life, as Valentine points out in CotM. They are, however, more willing to sacrifice individual lives for the good of the species than most humans tend to be. They already had the cocooned Hive Queen hidden on their other world for Ender to find. If ...

My girlfriend recently asked me to read the EnderVerse novels to her. (Part of this thing that we have started doing in which we read our favorite books aloud to each other -- lots of fun, and can be quite romantic when combined with a bottle of wine and an evening-in together.) Anyway, I went ahead...