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So now I have to research gunsmithing? I knew it would come to this eventually in this story, but I didn't think it would happen so soon. Woe is me. Every time I turn around in Charged with Folly I've got to become an instant mini-expert on something new--or make it up completely. That's the great thing about being a writer.
My physicist friend was quizzing me on the cherubimticon, my airship, the other day. I knew if anyone could pick that impossible dream apart, it would be him. Finally, I just said, "It's magic, okay??" I will have to fix up some of the tech next time around, though.
Oh, and thanks to
thursdayhaiku I was steered towards a helpful Nova on PBS the other night. "Wings of Madness," all about the early attempts at flight, including dirigibles, and focusing on a brilliant early pioneer who is largely forgotten these days, Alberto Santos-Dumont. Very interesting and very synchronistically broadcast.
My physicist friend was quizzing me on the cherubimticon, my airship, the other day. I knew if anyone could pick that impossible dream apart, it would be him. Finally, I just said, "It's magic, okay??" I will have to fix up some of the tech next time around, though.
Oh, and thanks to
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Date: 2006-11-10 04:42 pm (UTC)You didn't tell your physicist friend that your airship was toted around by cherubim?
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Date: 2006-11-10 07:10 pm (UTC)You didn't tell your physicist friend that your airship was toted around by cherubim?
Not cherubim, but an amazing simulacrum. :-)
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Date: 2006-11-11 12:23 am (UTC)As.......you........wish.........
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