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Worker
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 		How about:
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"Humor me," the Castaway said, playing /
"You could break my heart". The weather was stormy, scratched vinyl and /
music in his room, ancient music, jazz and swing, /


PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:16 pm
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keybsnbits
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ste wrote:
I don't quite buy this, but it has some merit for a first attempt:

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The weather was stormy, scratched vinyl and /
all of us, a long way from home. I felt real. /


This part sounds dodgy. But the rest is awesome. Post attempts to the wiki.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:18 pm
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number8
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 		I suggest adding these two passages to the beginning and the end of your put together passage. These might help since they came with the links.

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a really, really, really bad loser.

-OK.

That was ... disturbing.

Widow stuck in her pin and I threw up a memory: only I retched it out through the network tentacle.

Quote:

God, this is disgusting.

Memory benchmark


See if it helps.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:23 pm
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Primus
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 		I have a feeling it's supposed to be "Stormy Weather", not "the weather was stormy". "Stormy Weather" is an old Billie Holiday/Ella Fitzgerald song, which goes very nicely with the "ancient music / jazz and swing" fragment.

"In The Mood" is similar. It's an instrumental swing piece by Glenn Miller from the 30's.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:24 pm
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ste
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Worker wrote:
How about:
Quote:
"Humor me," the Castaway said, playing /
"You could break my heart". The weather was stormy, scratched vinyl and /
music in his room, ancient music, jazz and swing, /

That's better. I like it.,

So we could have this:

Quote:

"Humor me," the Castaway said, playing /
"You could break my heart". The weather was stormy, scratched vinyl and /
music in his room, ancient music, jazz and swing, /
all in the mood. "Melissa," he said. "Have a drink with me." /
I don't drink, but I asked for something anyway, and sat, /
holographically, and drank with him. He wasn't /
regular crew, just along for the ride. We picked him up in /
deep space, where he deployed buoys, waves of sound /
to confuse the enemy. A man that /
seemed noble, classical and pure. A sailor with /
all of us, a long way from home. I felt real, /
Odysseus. He told stories about soldiers caught /
waist deep in water, facing the enemy, their backs to /
the sea. Melissa, he called me Melissa, never /
Used my nickname. It's a sad thing I'm married. /


Although that kills the 'sailor with Odysseus' line which has some kind of weight to it, and replaces it with the sailor either being called Odysseus (unlikely), or this being addressed to Odysseus (unlikely). Not sure. But we're getting there...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:25 pm
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ste
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Primus wrote:
I have a feeling it's supposed to be "Stormy Weather", not "the weather was stormy". "Stormy Weather" is an old Billie Holiday/Ella Fitzgerald song, which goes very nicely with the "ancient music / jazz and swing" fragment.

"In The Mood" is similar. It's an instrumental swing piece by Glenn Miller from the 30's.

I think you're on to something, but I don't think the wording is wrong - I think it's just literary technique, alluding to Stormy Weather (which I didn't spot) and In The Mood (which I did).

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:27 pm
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Worker
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 		If we move the line "all of us, a long way from home. I felt real" up a bit and change capitailzation/punctuation a bit, we get:

Quote:
"Humor me," the Castaway said, playing /
"You could break my heart". The weather was stormy, scratched vinyl and /
music in his room, ancient music, jazz and swing. /
All of us, a long way from home. I felt real, /
all in the mood. "Melissa," he said. "Have a drink with me." /
I don't drink, but I asked for something anyway, and sat, /
holographically, and drank with him. He wasn't /
regular crew, just along for the ride. We picked him up in /
deep space, where he deployed buoys, waves of sound /
to confuse the enemy. A man that /
seemed noble, classical and pure. A sailor with /
Odysseus. He told stories about soldiers caught /
waist deep in water, facing the enemy, their backs to /
the sea. Melissa, he called me Melissa, never /
Used my nickname. It's a sad thing I'm married. /


PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:30 pm
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Pier
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 		I felt the 'I felt real' didn't fit, and switched it to a few lines above.
Now we have the Odysseus back too.

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"Humor me," the Castaway said, playing /
"You could break my heart". The weather was stormy, scratched vinyl and /
music in his room, ancient music, jazz and swing, /
all of us, a long way from home. I felt real, /
all in the mood. "Melissa," he said. "Have a drink with me." /
I don't drink, but I asked for something anyway, and sat, /
holographically, and drank with him. He wasn't /
regular crew, just along for the ride. We picked him up in /
deep space, where he deployed buoys, waves of sound /
to confuse the enemy. A man that /
seemed noble, classical and pure. A sailor with /
Odysseus. He told stories about soldiers caught /
waist deep in water, facing the enemy, their backs to /
the sea. Melissa, he called me Melissa, never /
Used my nickname. It's a sad thing I'm married. /



Edit: Euhms, yeah, exactly as Worker said Smile

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:30 pm
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LilSerf
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 		I'm really bugged by "I sat, holographically, and drank with him." But maybe this is an AI speaking and we can justify that...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:32 pm
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ste
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Quote:
"Humor me," the Castaway said, playing /
"You could break my heart". The weather was stormy, scratched vinyl and /
music in his room, ancient music, jazz and swing. /
All of us, a long way from home: I felt real, /
all in the mood. "Melissa," he said. "Have a drink with me." /
I don't drink, but I asked for something anyway, and sat, /
holographically, and drank with him. He wasn't /
regular crew, just along for the ride. We picked him up in /
deep space, where he deployed buoys, waves of sound /
to confuse the enemy. A man that /
seemed noble, classical and pure. A sailor with /
Odysseus. He told stories about soldiers caught /
waist deep in water, facing the enemy, their backs to /
the sea. Melissa, he called me Melissa, never /
Used my nickname. It's a sad thing I'm married. /

Looks good to me. Change the period after home into a colon and the first clause becomes an explanation for the second. But that's just nit-picking, the subeditor in me talking, and I'm totally pleased your managed to bring back my Sailor with Odysseus bit. Feels much more important that way, as a metaphor, not a name.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:34 pm
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number8
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 		Given what you guys come up with so far, I've put 2 and 2 together and see if it flies:


a really, really, really bad loser.

-OK.

That was ... disturbing.

Widow stuck in her pin and I threw up a memory: only I retched it out through the network tentacle


"Humor me," the Castaway said, playing /
"You could break my heart". The weather was stormy, scratched vinyl and /
music in his room, ancient music, jazz and swing. /
All of us, a long way from home: I felt real, /
all in the mood. "Melissa," he said. "Have a drink with me." /
I don't drink, but I asked for something anyway, and sat, /
holographically, and drank with him. He wasn't /
regular crew, just along for the ride. We picked him up in /
deep space, where he deployed buoys, waves of sound /
to confuse the enemy. A man that /
seemed noble, classical and pure. A sailor with /
Odysseus. He told stories about soldiers caught /
waist deep in water, facing the enemy, their backs to /
the sea. Melissa, he called me Melissa, never /
Used my nickname. It's a sad thing I'm married. /


God, this is disgusting.

Memory benchmark

It's all speculation at this point, but this implies that this is the Queen's memory, and her name is Melissa.

Thoughts?
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Pezdro
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 		Nice Tie In. Considering Melissa means honey-bee.
I agree whole heartedly. One of the characters in the story is a Hologram/ai. I don't feel it could be the Sailor.

But who is the Castaway/Sailor? Odysseus stands for Full of Wrath. He seems to be some sort of important tie in.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:52 pm
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Worker
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 		Sounds good enough to put on the Wiki, whoever is working on that part right now...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:56 pm
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Gatsu
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LilSerf wrote:
I'm really bugged by "I sat, holographically, and drank with him." But maybe this is an AI speaking and we can justify that...


This also fits well, with "I felt real".

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:58 pm
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eMouse
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 		It's possible that the AI on the castaway's original ship was named Odysseus.

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