Comments on: Chapter 5 – Page 3

By: atypicaloracle

atypicaloracle — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:22:15 +0000

Either Byron survived his village getting wiped out Conan-style, or the last time he lost his temper he killed off his entire town and didn’t wake up until two days later when the fires finally died out.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:08:41 +0000

Every time I find myself upset about a fictional death, I take solace in the literary present. Even though the first time we encounter Leafport, it is destroyed, I’m good enough at rationalizing to consider
a.) In order to have a corpse-strewn path, a town must have citizens available for slaughter.
b.) If a town has citizens available for slaughter, it has some sort of life as a town.
c.) In a well-written story, characters are often allowed some autonomy to lead the authors in the right direction.
d.) This is a well-written story.
e.) Therefore Leafport could have led a fictional life quietly to itself in the background while we were watching Pirate ships and things.
f.) Literary present steps in and says “Because this is a work of fiction, which is read and re-read, it exists in a constant state of flux. So, even though for me, right now, Leafport is destroyed, for many other fledgling readers the town still exists, if only in potentia. And considering this IS a work of fiction, potentia is good enough for me!”

And ta-da! The guilt I briefly felt for bringing about the massacre of Leafport can safely resume business as a fraction of the random generalized guilt making up approximately two fifths of my psyche.

By: Locke

Locke — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:29:28 +0000

Archive binging to find this page. I can’t help but wonder what hand Byron had in the destruction of (what I assume to be) his childhood home?

By: Custodes

Custodes — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:07:15 +0000

Context implies Gastonian is a term for people from a location in the comic world. Similar to American or German.

By: TheObliviousOne

TheObliviousOne — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:50:32 +0000

What does gastonian mean?