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Person 1: "If I had a wish, I'd wish for a million dollars."
Person 2: "I'd wish for a sandwich."
Person 1: "What's wrong with you? Don't you have any ambition?"
Person 2: :: Goes to the kitchen and makes a sandwich:: "And which one of our wishes actually came true?"
Thanks for answering my question, it really means a lot. But, I do have one other one. Could you perform libriomancy with a heavily image-based medium? For example, something like comic-books or the like? Or does the over-reliance on images in them result in a lack of attached imagination on the part of the reader thus making them unusable for libriomancers?
That's exactly the reason comic books and graphic novels don't work, yep. I believe book four touches on that as well.
Goodness that was a prompt response. Thank you again Mr. Hines. Oh one last thing (hopefully) and sorry if I'm being too nosy. While we know that time travel isn't really possible and would likely kill whomever tried it, what about things like alternative dimensions and the like? Plenty of books talk about "ethereal planes" and have objects that allow characters to travel to them. Not to mention the subtle knife from "His Dark Materials" which is sharp enough to cut through boundaries between worlds. So would those things similarly kill a libriomancer/not work or would they actually transport the user to the theoretical places?
As a general rule, those aren't going to work. One of Isaac's research projects in REVISIONARY deals with gateways and portals and such, and trying to get them to work in the real world rather than simply destroying the libriomancer. Anything that opens the way to a "fictional" destination is going to be a dead end.
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I never ever had an answer for the question: what superpower would you like to have? until I started Libriomancer (Jasper Ffordes book-hopping was a near-deal, but a little bit too much contact), but to be able to get real things out of a book - it was like: sold! After a while, though, it came to my mind that nearly everything I wanted to pull out was something to eat or drink. I just don't deserve ANY kind of superpower because of my l lack of ambition! =D
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Person 1: "If I had a wish, I'd wish for a million dollars."Person 2: "I'd wish for a sandwich."
Person 1: "What's wrong with you? Don't you have any ambition?"
Person 2: :: Goes to the kitchen and makes a sandwich:: "And which one of our wishes actually came true?"
Thanks for answering my question, it really means a lot. But, I do have one other one. Could you perform libriomancy with a heavily image-based medium? For example, something like comic-books or the like? Or does the over-reliance on images in them result in a lack of attached imagination on the part of the reader thus making them unusable for libriomancers?
That's exactly the reason comic books and graphic novels don't work, yep. I believe book four touches on that as well.
Goodness that was a prompt response. Thank you again Mr. Hines. Oh one last thing (hopefully) and sorry if I'm being too nosy. While we know that time travel isn't really possible and would likely kill whomever tried it, what about things like alternative dimensions and the like? Plenty of books talk about "ethereal planes" and have objects that allow characters to travel to them. Not to mention the subtle knife from "His Dark Materials" which is sharp enough to cut through boundaries between worlds. So would those things similarly kill a libriomancer/not work or would they actually transport the user to the theoretical places?
As a general rule, those aren't going to work. One of Isaac's research projects in REVISIONARY deals with gateways and portals and such, and trying to get them to work in the real world rather than simply destroying the libriomancer. Anything that opens the way to a "fictional" destination is going to be a dead end.
