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(AnnaN, you should have left it, you were tied.)
Well, darn it, that’ll teach me to vote again. (I would include a fancy smiley face, but I don’t know how.)
Congratulations to all of the winners.
IB I don’t often read historical fiction and I’m not very knowledgeable about weapons, but here is my 2cents anyway. It’s not that I didn’t have any idea what these items were; it was that I only had a vague idea (actually your descriptions confirmed that my assumptions were correct for the most part). Because I was unsure of several items mentioned in your 13, I found myself pausing and wondering if what I was imagining was correct, instead of getting into the story. But it sounds like your target reader would have a firm grasp on the period, so those details would enrich their experience. I’m wondering if there is a way to satisfy the seasoned historical fiction readers, while making it accessible enough to entice the less knowledgeable readers.
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Skadder, click on the edit button for IB's post and you will see what he did to create the sunglasses.
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I figured you just didn't know. Ignorance is when you don't know and you ask. Idiot-ness is when you don't know and you don't bother to ask. Ignorance can be cured. I'm not so sure about idiot-ness.
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I am an idiot because I knew you could look at someones original text (edit post) and that the code would obviously be there. I just didn't put the two things together. So I guess, in answer to question I am a dislocated idiot.
Besides I have wondered about it for a while. So I fulfill the not asking aspect too.
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Yeah...and if you had an eye anywhere but your posterior, you'd have traded the card when I gave the signal, and you'd have the sunglasses and I'd have the Millennium Falcon.
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