Re: Narrative Summary and Transitions

David Friedman wrote: 
In article <11mqm2bch5cf6a9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Bill Swears <wswears@xxxxxxx> wrote:


They found him standing in a clearing perhaps a quarter mile downstream from Beaudelaire¹s campsite, watching large wooden posts like mainmasts whistle down from the distance and drive themselves deep into the earth, one by one. 


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Great stone columns three feet in diameter and fifty feet tall proceeded to form a fortress wall in the clearing. The ground shook as each of these columns drove itself into the ground. 


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It's perhaps unreasonable, but I keep thinking about how incompressible dirt is. I'm pretty sure that someone who wanted stone columns three feet in diameter buried in the ground, and was doing it with modern heavy machinery, would dig a hole first, and given that your magery appears to be hard work the way your mage does it feels like implausible author-showing-off material.

I lived in a highrise in Hawaii while I recovered from injuries. For several weeks, I got to listen to the construction team next door drive pilings into the ground. It was like listening to the forbidden offspring of a stocatto earthquake, and a 105MM howitzer, and it shook the 20 story building I lived in. I would have thought like you, until I saw machinery doing this thing.

Anyway, any magic of this nature could be assumed to do whatever was necessary.

Bill

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Bill Swears

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Ben Franklin, 1755 "Historical Review of Pennsylvania"

To think that was once a right wing comment. In the land of Homeland Security it seems.. Suspiciously left-wing.
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