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The book is starting to get interesting.

...immediately notice the missing element, and others don't.

I find it hard to think that this is only explained by familiarity.

"A consistent finding across studies was that individuals from many communities appeared not to connect elements across panels i.e.-they did not recognize the continuity constraint-and instead interpreted each image as an isolated scene."

I wonder if this has something to do with cognition though, for example, sometimes when people watch tv shows with an overarching narrative, and they miss an episode, some people..

"a person who is more familiar with European or American comics than manga may perceive their strained fluency with Japanese Visual Language as 'bad storytelling' or just a dislike in personal preference."

That is certainly true, I remember one student insisting the one-shot manga they had to read was terrible...when really they just didn't know to read from right to left. Even when corrected, they still hated it.

Decided to set aside Guns, germs and steel for a bit and read something slightly more entertaining and informative.

"This [clustering] technique would tell us if cultures[/genres] are fairly homogenous in their patterns, or if...[they] might actually have greater diversity in their structures than the labels imply."

"The analyses discussed thus far have all focused on the ways in which cultures are similar or different in their structures. However, these analyses presuppose a categorization based on which cultures and/or genres they come from. Another method is to compare the data from each book regardless of cultural labels and see the ways in this which this information might form clusters."

Do we not continually pass by blessings innumerable without notice, and instead fix our eyes on what we feel to be our trials and our losses, and think and talk about these, until our whole horizon is filled with them, and we almost begin to think we have no blessings at all?"

The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.

"While the precise macro-mono proportions are somewhat different between manga of different demographics (shonen/seinen versus shojo/josei), these differences did not differ statistically."

I find that somewhat surprising.

40% of the way through, are we finally going to get to GUNS!?!? GERMS!?!?!?! STEEL?!!!?!?

While I'm on the mysteries of the way this man thinks...he's taking modern diseases and extrapolating them back hundreds of thousands of years. ...

What's the basis of that exactly? New diseases arise fairly regularly,...so why does he assume that this disease that we have now has always existed? and is singularly responsible for the lack of livestock movement? ...I think that's a bit of a stretch.

...I don't understand how this man thinks. Somehow humanity was advanced enough to create boats to get to Australia in 40,000 BC, yet, was also somehow not advanced enough to move Fertile crescent crops by boat down to south Africa until 1652........

Because people movement is unlimited, but crop people carrying seeds...isn't?

"Poor nature longs from self-love to behold itself perfect; it is vexed that it is not so, it is impatient, haughty, and out of temper with itself and with everybody else."

"Discouragement is not a fruit of humility, but of pride, and nothing could be worse. It springs from a secret love of our own excellence." Fenelon

Okay.

I see.

That was his whole point, that narrative and pictures are not inherently the same, that narrative is not contained in the pictures, but is something else outside of them.

...I don't know why that needed 15 pages to explain.

...preserve the narrative. But that's a function of narrative, not comics. I can take the 'Peak' panel and use it as an establisher panel if I so choose to. I just have to write a different narrative. There is nothing about the picture itself that is particularly 'establishmentary' it's how it is used inside of the narrative.

I don't understand what this has to do with understanding comics. I get what it has to do with understanding narratives, because narratives have specific features that progressively follow one another. But that's just the point about a picture. A picture by itself can be placed at any point in a narrative. Yes. The pictures of Pang the shaolin munk flow in a narrative sequence and we can remove some of them and...