A comprehensive quiz + bonus fan faction about the the underrated cult classic show "Kelly Unicornstrider and Friends" (1982-1985). Questions range from really easy to really difficult.

I think putting this on "publish" makes it so only we can see this. It's just for us, sweetie. I made it to celebrate our anniversary and remember some special intimate moments together over the years in an interesting way as a present for you.

I hope you love it, Natalie, as much as I love you!

(Of course if there's any admin looking at this, or if I messed up, don't read this, because it's got private things in it.)

This is my required report to the full faculty in accordance with the rules noted in the Faculty Handbook (version 15.1, as of October 2017)

"Personally I can only read 16 words in one go before words stop working," wrote Mizal.

This game has sixteen words per path.  Not counting "The End."  So you can play quickly.

When reviewing, please use precisely sixteen words.   That should be plenty for your suggestions and observations.

Note this challenge connected with this game:  Write the Last Page!

Then, if you have learned English as a foreign language, I'll expect you to be particularly well informed about the technicalities of English and to be particularly adept at it.  Those who are native speakers, I can forgive some minor errors, but *certainly* not those who studied it.

I'll get there in time.  I have to submit final grades this week.  Then I get to read these wonderful entries.

"Hello." I say shyly.

No, don't do that.  Just...read the article.

To me, Hector's attitude about what he expects for his wife speaks mostly to the way women in this world are treasure.  It hits my ear about the same as sorrow for the destruction of the city, and is analogous to the grousing about slave-woman-loot in Book 1. 

But the most interesting thing about this book (and other books to come) is the way this ancient story already has baked into it the feeling that the best days are gone, and we're left with a reduced version of heroism--as per Glaucus.  Heracles, now that was a hero.  Bellerophon, he was mighty.  But these Greeks and Trojans today?  Eh.  What I love about that is that there's the same exact feeling in Beowulf and in the early King Arthur stories and, Icelandic sagas, and well, in Tolkien--it's just part of sweeping, epic narrative that we are living in a time of decline, and we have to do the best we can in the shadow of people who were our betters, and also, there's no going back.  It's all bad, and we have to fight the long defeat.  Is that too pessimistic for this part of the Iliad?

Just a quick comment as the ball gets rolling:  I wonder about that Diomedes's amazing God-Vision and god wounding being *wholly* heroic and talking 'bout his generation, because it seems to me that the Aphrodite wounding is played largely for laughs--is she mocked in a different way than Ares here? 

I have a hard time yoking together Ares as War Embodied (in the same sense that Aphrodite *is* Love and Poseidon *is* The Ocean) while also seeing him as the most human of the Olympians.  I can't reconcile those two views, and I'm not sure Book V gives me much to work with in caring about Ares the person. 

I could have sworn that you told me not to read certain of your works, and I thought that was so funny.  It must have been really early on.

Oh, yeah!  I 100% forgot about this.  It would be fun to continue, actually.

My favorite thing about Eternal is that I have never read it, because End told me not to.

Something else I was thinking about was how part of what this chapter does is replay the catalogue of ship from the previous book--we get Agamemmnon walking by, noting all of the very most important Greek warriors, just making it crystal clear who our main characters are.

The catalogue of ships sort of flattens the hierarchy out--everyone, both the famous heroes and the not famous heroes, get their moment.  But in this book, the spotlight really points out the main Greek heroes as distinct from the rest.

They don't *want* things settled.  Athena and Hera (to name two who have specific grudges) are not going to settle for anything less than Troy being razed.  The war has to go on.