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Posted: 8/1/2015 12:44:46 PM EDT
[#1]
Submittal time doesn't matter, quality does and doing a great job at it.
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Posted: 8/1/2015 7:14:42 PM EDT
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One of the fascinating things about a “Black Swan” event like the Sinai Nuke, is the myriad of responses society goes through until the new accepted norm has found its feet, like someone standing in pirogue when a surprise barge goes by on a bayou. Everything is rocked, everything is heaving in the dangerous wake left by the unexpected proximity of a large turn of events.
Some may find themselves arse over feet, falling into the gator infested troubled waters, others riding the waves and making good time to new opportunities for trout and redfish which have been pushed out along the banks. More than a few will freeze in fear, waiting for it all to subside and go away. Tim thinks he’s surfing a wave, I think he’s already crayfish bait. He’s a pawn on the Gehr chessboard about to be eaten by a prawn. I would love to see some sort of confrontation between him and Maria, if a little slip of a girl like Bi could do that much damage to him, imagine what a real woman could do. Thanks for the update DC! You might not see me for a while, have to take a trip to the old world to settle some business and tamp down the earth on a couple graves. Fortnight at least, perhaps a month, but I’m already excited anticipating the updates I’ll get to catch up on! |
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Posted: 8/1/2015 9:48:20 PM EDT
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Maybe it wall (was) all that tennis he watched.
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Posted: 8/2/2015 10:06:59 AM EDT
[#4]
Thank you for the updates, no matter how short they are. I can not wait to be able to read it from start to finish. Keep up the good work
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Posted: 8/2/2015 1:41:41 PM EDT
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One heck of a story, you have real talent. So I made it up to todays post and am now a follower.
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Posted: 8/3/2015 2:57:46 PM EDT
[#6]
Thanks for the update DC.
Small typo, maybe? 'Miguel! Pistola! Oro! Vena aqui!' Should be 'Ven aqui' I believe. 'Vena aqui' should translate to 'Vein here', whereas 'Ven aqui' translates to 'Come here'. |
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Posted: 8/8/2015 6:15:20 AM EDT
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GENERAL NOTE: Pretty obvious my 'new schedule' is hardly effective. Another kind of issue, let's call it a 'composition' ( purposefully meaningless language, how did I do? Excellent! Thank you...) continuously rearranges itself as a gigantic time sink. So. If I DO NOT PUT UP UPDATE BY SUNDAY NIGHT, WILL PUSH IT OVER TO NEXT FRIDAY IF I CAN. Probability I can put something up next 48 is about 40%. Next Friday, 90%. --highstepper, very pleased to see. Yes, horrible to understand how many Tims/Sylvias out there. Clinical/neural/genetic: you're looking at maybe 1 in 100. Environmental equivalents, trauma/culture your looking at maybe low 10/s. Some cultures, a particularly malevolent religious cult, for instance, has EVOLVED/WAS SELECTED to produce 'sociopaths' as a critical control element/storm troopers. Golly Gee, I wonder what the religious/warrior cult might be? It is very very successful. --DFarm, good eye on the typo. The regular votes for paper copies continue to amaze. I had assumed this would always be E-book stuff. There will be a solution at some point. But assume the ebook version will precede by a minimum of several months, while I sort out when/how. Binary and her crew will be traveling soon. They will appear at the very end of the book. She is a 'long' character, built to last, assuming I have many years to do this. Obviously if I were a faster writer pretty much every character of note deserves their own book/series. A story through the eyes of Byron York, for instance, would deeply satisfy every curb-stomping, throat cutting, trigger-tapping reader's desire. Oh--yep, the next book is from Gretzky "The Orangutan"/s point of view. One of the Deputy's best friends/crew mates. Gretzky is a Byron York. Gretzky is my ultimate good monster in this series, which I hope to keep going for years. The only "bigger monster" in the extended Gehriverse, which includes Injured Reserves, is Gretzky Sr., who is the team lead/crew chief/boat driver/ in Injured Reserves. GRETZKY SR. from "Injured Reserves": The boat swung in, a deep vibration and a long coasting shadow and Billy let Tate go to float above, aimed his still body at the dim shape of the dock, vision narrowing for lack of oxygen. His life now down to this dim tunnel of remaining light and as he died he reminded himself that Gretzky knew him better than he knew himself , had a plan for everything and sure enough Gretzky caught Tate's body, held him still with his head above water so Billy could climb Tate's only leg, sink numb hands in fabric with all he had left and he rose to the surface. Exhaled and arrived back in the swollen bright and bellowing world of air and noise. Gretzky stepped on his left wrist as it rose and pinned it to the dock. "Five seconds while I put some lipstick on,” Gretzky said and leaned into an MG-42 in the stance of a match shooter at Camp Perry and fired three bursts as a single rolling clap of sound at one of the cliffside gunners and Billy had just enough strength to turn as he swallowed his own blood to see a man topple, catch on a snag of limb and claw at himself as Gretzky's rounds took an arm off, then a leg, then blew the head to pieces in a smear against the rock, red as a clown's carmine lips in good light, a black spray in the shade. Concussive decapitation, meant lipstick, everywhere. Gretzky tossed his smoking weapon behind him, said "Hang on,” then, "Fold his arms,” no grab handles here but if you crossed a man's arms in a heavy canvas jacket a man like Gretzky could pull him out of a tar pit by the collar, let alone lift him out of seawater, and Tate, head slumped and lolling was up on the dock, and now out of view. Billy dropped back down, his left side and arm numb but he had just enough control to use his right hand to pound his left between the broken boards of the dock, and he hung there, a broken doll on a broken limb. The Oerlikons firing over him, rippling the water with an orange brush which lit a swirl of motion to his right, a spiral of minnows spinning in a glittering cone around some ancient need, The Great Wheel in all its oblivious and remorseless beauty. Uncaring. Of himself. And of his men. He was ready to go. He had done enough. And he felt Gretzky's machinist's grip, a clamp of steel on his wrist and he was lifted onto the dock, spun around, and tossed on the deck, Gretzky leaping behind him and grinning down. "Well done, Billy, let's go home.” ( AMAZON Kindle Single Injured Reserves ) --Currently, very much appreciated on submittal time but I need to harden the F up. Long process, this is a new skill for me. Much to learn, particularly managing it as a 'job' and not an 'art' as in 'oh wow wait for inspiration', and so on. The story has been seen, in other words. I have to muscle the description forward, and that is a skill I do not have yet. --Radiohack, most pleased to see you as always. You speculations on the nature of Tim and Sylvia's fate are in the near nature of 'SPOILERS' ( HINT: NO SPECULATIONS AS TO FUTURE EVOLUTION OF STORY...PLEASE...AS IT MIGHT AFFECT OTHER READERS' PROCESS OF DISCOVERY ) And no harm no foul in this case, Radio. In other words, I think even you will see some very unanticipated bends and arcs and new ideas. Understand your trip, Radio. A solemn business, that tamping of dirt. --trapshooter, very good eye. Thank you. --ny15, much appreciated. Will do my best. --dallanta, a new voice here and very pleased to see you. Hopefully this thread will reach into the millions of views and tens of thousand of comments. Short of asteroid hit I should be doing this for at least low decades. --FIELD/MP, will check almost certainly you are correct. Much thanks. GENERAL NOTE: much thanks to those of you who find search phrase: 'DCBourone Kindle Single Injured Reserves' To those of you who are new here, or lurking, Injured Reserves is a kind of moral bible of the Gehr Family, and a key reference between and amongst all who live in the Gehriverse. Injured was written by a member of the Gehr Family, who will make himself known in later books. "Combat is the control of your adversary in the three dimensions of space, across the fourth dimension, of time...." search (Kindle Single Injured Reserves) Thank you, DesignatedMarksman. Ok, back to work. DCBourone -- |
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Posted: 8/8/2015 1:44:57 PM EDT
[#8]
I'm really glad to hear that Gretzky is coming back. Definitely one of my favorite characters. Thanks for all you do.
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Posted: 8/8/2015 2:53:34 PM EDT
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DC, thanks for keeping on, keeping on.
I enjoy the reading. |
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Posted: 8/9/2015 4:11:15 AM EDT
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As I read Injured Reserves, the mental image of the main characters solidified as the story unfolded. For reasons unknown to me, from the first introduction, I could see Gretzky as if I were standing on the boat with him; the same phenomenon occurred during the brief encounter with Gretzky Jr. in TSS.
Maybe the characters are so fully formed in your mind, their personas are communicated as whole and definite; consequently, the reader processes them with the same certainty? Maybe subliminal messages were encoded in the surrounding sentences; and wet, literary robots implanted themselves in the cortex of my brain; then subliminally input the Gretzkys into my conciousness as further texts activated conceptualization programs, which were effected by the wet brain-bots. Okay, probably not that one, but who doesn't like a good conspiracy theory? Either way, I'm stoked to see Gretzky as the central character of the third book. (Assuming Injured Reserves is the first). Don't sweat the schedule; the product will be remembered, the speed in which it was created will not. Thanks for the work your doing. Keep on. |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 8/11/2015 9:10:37 PM EDT
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As much as I like this story, I have always tried to under promise and over deliver.
I would prefer to not look for updates that aren't there repeatedly. |
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Posted: 8/12/2015 10:07:08 PM EDT
[#12]
Still here and enjoying the story.
Keep up the good work DC. |
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OK, USA
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Posted: 8/12/2015 11:10:55 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Toyforever]
[#13]
I love this story, how it makes one think and ponder posibilities. I just started this yesterday and completely caught up. Fixing to approach Kindle for IR, to fill in gaps of history.
Thank you , carry on |
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Posted: 8/15/2015 4:43:14 PM EDT
[Last Edit: DCBourone]
[#14]
GENERAL NOTE: Working on update. Appreciate patience. In reference to a comment below I will stop making predictions as to updates. Will just do my best. In the realm of too much information: along with normal life stuff, and not being a full time writer, there is a severe and ongoing health issue in proximity. I would rather it were mine. But it is not. --DesignatedMarksman, much continuing thanks. We saw Gretzky Jr., "The Orangutan" only briefly, but he will be and was intended to be a character who could carry his own book. As an extension of his father, seen in Injured Reserves, and Billy Spears, who wrote Injured Reserves, he will have a great deal to say and do. He might be the closest we will ever get to the mind of The Deputy, Billy Gehr's father, as he and Gretzky Jr. were together for so many years, with the added dimension that what The Orangutan cannot finesse, he can demolish. The Orangutan is the biggest hammer the Gehriverse will ever swing, other than his father, Gretzky Sr., and possibly, Billy Spears. --zoe17, much thanks for your patience and I will just post updates in the future, as they make the grade. --PFunkk a handshake someday and we know each other pretty well now. The characters are very well-formed, yes, down to eyelashes and eyebrows. The issue for story-telling is always converting a second which could be a page down to a sentence or two. The Cantina Massacre is an event of a minute or two, approach to exit, and is approximately ninety pages? It could be a thousand. Your brain-bot analogy is appropriate: language is code for the mind. The brain is a wet computer. And so on. Not a conspiracy theory. Pull hard on this string and see where you find yourself. On the other hand, maybe not a good idea, because the more you understand the farther you will find yourself from most conventional peer groups. There might be some Planck constant/other entanglement issues, for instance. There are some rather unnerving non-science sciences involved. I imagine you might be familiar with the idea that a person under observation, even from a thousand yards, through pretty good glass, and even from a monitor, a thousand miles away, might alter their behavior? A great deal is not understood, but only observed. "The speed in which it is created is not," much thanks PF. --last/crusader, understood on over-promising. A risky experiment, it appears. I will do my best. And no more promises, at best only vague suggestions. --Equator, very good to see you and have you been here before and I do not remember? Many names/avatars now, almost 1.5 years, but at this stage would prefer not to forget any, or all. --Toyforever, very much thanks on comments. If you do find Injured and find it useful/appealing, would you please post a brief comment on Amazon? The reviews/rankings make a huge difference, and if I am correct they will be very important in the future. GENERAL NOTE: Ok, back to work. The update will appear within...a month. This story will be finished at some point. I was hoping for a September earliest launch date, as September is the best month for indie writers, but that looks increasingly unlikely. But this will get done. Then I will write another story. And another. And another. It could take a really long time. I hope it does. GENERAL NOTE: much thanks to those of you who find search phrase: 'DCBourone Kindle Single Injured Reserves' To those of you who are new here, or lurking, Injured Reserves is a kind of moral bible of the Gehr Family, and a key reference between and amongst all who live in the Gehriverse. Injured was written by a member of the Gehr Family, who will make himself known in later books. "Combat is the control of your adversary in the three dimensions of space, across the fourth dimension, of time...." search (Kindle Single Injured Reserves) Thank you, DesignatedMarksman. Ok, back to work. DCBourone |
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Posted: 8/15/2015 7:33:25 PM EDT
[#15]
Thank you!
The ride has been worth it! |
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Posted: 8/16/2015 1:13:20 AM EDT
[#16]
I have enjoyed the story. I am of the similar mindset. Sadly, I feel like the last of my generation/era. I wish I knew more people with the same values and mindset locally. I feel like Brian soul searching, looking to fit in.
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Posted: 8/16/2015 11:00:31 AM EDT
[#17]
DCB-
I'm still reading and still enjoying. -mnvwguy02 |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 8/16/2015 12:59:34 PM EDT
[#18]
DCB - we all understand that a loved one with health issues tends to chase away the muse. Take care of what is important. Your loyal audience will wait....and will continue to educate and enlighten where we can.
We appreciate what you're doing. Our job as fans/compatriots/brothers is to spread the word. |
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Posted: 8/16/2015 5:29:39 PM EDT
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DCB, We are all still here, waiting patiently. I will hazard a guess that all of us understand that Family comes first. Not being a blood / marriage relative of yours, I will wait as needed. I won't LIKE it, but life is NOT supposed to be FAIR!
 Now, go take care of your folks so that they may be healed / comforted as applies so that you may, one day, get BACK TO WORK!  May His Peace be with You and Yours! |
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Posted: 8/16/2015 8:34:40 PM EDT
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A new Soldier's Son!
Joshua Bryant, born 09 Aug 2015.
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Posted: 8/16/2015 9:20:04 PM EDT
[#21]
Is that a poncho liner? If I could sum up all the nights I have spent thanking .gov for those warm little blankys... |
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Posted: 8/17/2015 2:05:29 AM EDT
[Last Edit: PFunkk]
[#22]
I've come to anticipate the comments more than the story; e.g. BCD5685.
I know a small amount concerning quantum physics. After the last comment I know much more. The thought provoking responses from the author have been a gold mine; somehow eclipsing a masterpiece. Much thanks DC. Hopefully a handshake some day. Keep on. Edit- DesignatedMarksman: that's a good looking kid. |
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Posted: 8/25/2015 7:43:00 PM EDT
[Last Edit: DCBourone]
[#23]
GENERAL NOTE: as slow as this is, approaching end of this story. For those of you who
are still here, I will be posting a timetable AFTER I have finished, proofed, edited, of when I will be publishing, --Currently, good to see you, and I know it seems odd to say but I will remind you and everyone that I have no other plans for the next twenty years except to expand this and other overlapping worlds. So hopefully the ride is just starting! --zoe17, delighted to see you and knowing your reading habits and speed your patience counts double. "Last of our generation" we shall see. Good habits (philosophies/mindsets/other) can/might/have flourished in hard times. My model is Brazil, and particularly Sao Paolo. A city of over 10 million. Staggering wealth and total despair, cheek by jowl. There are fine people there, raising families, wary of the depredation around them, but they carry on. We should do better. Do you see your friends here, zoe17? I do. Nuff said at this time. --mnvwguy02, much thanks for sticking with this. Within a few months you should have a 500 page book, substantially the same but also heavily edited. Hopefully it will be worth more that one read. The tutorial from The Deputy/Billy's Father might be of interest on a second read, for instance. --kermit, much thanks. The time sink here has an unexpected element. But some form of this will happen to us all, most likely, although I have an ongoing interest in various life extension/mediation technologies. A fascinating future of chipped slaves, obedient above all else, with extended life spans...as long as they obey....so much fun! --On Spreading The Word--yes, I am counting on you all. This dialogue and everyone here are the only advantage I have in a very competitive market. Fortunately the dialogue is my favorite part of this. There are people here I hope to meet someday. --GreenGiant very much thanks. As someone generally suspicious of sentiment I am still very grateful for the patience and consideration shown here. Nuff said. --DesignatedMarksman...That. Is. Just. So. Cool!!!!!! What a brilliant punctuation for this thread! Hopefully when he is twenty he will be on the other side of this story, and all those that follow. The Future. On a poncho liner. Just brilliant. --stimpsonJ, have had my eye on the Wiggy's poncho liners for some time. Too long since I've been walking my tools here and there. Just...day-um. Have a gigantic stack of now antiquating gear waiting for....waiting for....a future I insist I will make happen. --PFunkk, you have some pretty firm knowledge on my method/intent/design. If I do well enough, long enough, I will harness/displace the information in these comments/footnotes into other fiction. I have an annotated Injured Reserves in mind, the first page of Injured has seven pages of notes, about 2000 words. Probably pointless, as Injured will almost certainly remain inaccessible to all but the most practiced readers. On quantum domains/sciences/other, The unknown is obviously infinitely more than the known, to think otherwise would assume that new knowledge stops....now. The chronometer was invented in the last several hundred years. And we still do not know what "time" is, other than our pitiful attempts to describe what we can only perceive as an effect, and our equally crude attempts to confine it to a tool we can 'use.' It can be absolutely determined that 'time' blurs, future to past, in laboratory settings. Check out studies relating to video observation of pleasant pictures, interspersed with unpleasant pictures, and subject/observer subcon anticipation of 'unpleasant' picture which have yet to appear on screen, as measured by respiration/pulse/etc. And if time can blur in seconds/fractions of seconds, why not years? Decades? Centuries? -----TEXT REMOVED 01072019 .RE EPUB T0S-------- |
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Posted: 8/25/2015 9:57:21 PM EDT
[#24]
Yes. Good.
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Posted: 8/25/2015 11:26:31 PM EDT
[#25]
Gehr Balrog....hmmm....I like it!
I think I have an idea what that is but I don't wish to spoil anything. Good stuff DCB! Thank you! Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 8/26/2015 12:41:43 AM EDT
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I am trying to decide if I am being lied to...and loving it because I love the song. Or am I being told the truth, by an idiot. I knew...without error...when Peter Jackson changed the character who named the Balrog by name that the story he meant to tell was never meant for me. George Washington does not make Patrick Henry's speech at St John's. Here...we are presented with gates. And I can hear the rooster crowing the dawn already. See the face of the wraith that suddenly doubts. But I think somewhere shy of Eowyn and the witchking this battle will end. Minas Tirith was run by a maddened fool who incinerated himself...not someone who would spend days practicing incinerating others with a 32oz cup of gasoline and soap flakes. You know...to get it right. No...Gehr Waffenfabrik isn't guarded by bows and trebuchet...here...there be belt-feds! DC. You neglected to post the instructions for sending you my money. A simple oversight I am sure. PS - A dragon...well, yes, I suspect our own Bard will be armed with a spear...and likely a bit more devout. Enough with JRR...sing to me! |
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Posted: 8/26/2015 10:34:17 AM EDT
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Using the savant to paint your picture in metaphors.... Brilliant!
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Posted: 8/26/2015 10:59:38 AM EDT
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Sweet a update. I had stopped checking. Keep it up DC.
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Posted: 8/26/2015 11:04:44 AM EDT
[#29]
Can't wait to get the book and read this all the way through and put together.
Great job! |
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Posted: 8/26/2015 12:50:06 PM EDT
[#30]
Thanks for the update. Candy Man's viewpoint was a fun break from the standard prose.
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Posted: 8/26/2015 9:49:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By zoe17: Sweet a update. I had stopped checking. Keep it up DC. Glad I checked this thread. Finally! Great updates. Great read. Looking forward to more DC. |
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Posted: 8/27/2015 6:04:26 AM EDT
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Well worth the wait
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Posted: 8/27/2015 7:44:49 AM EDT
[#33]
Very good.
However, as I read Tim's dialog, I found myself cringing a bit. The guy is indeed a scum bag, but had he used such foul language and lewd, perverse suggestions in prior chapters? I can't remember. Regardless, you somehow made me hate him more than ever - a feat I didn't think was possible! Thanks for the update, DCB! 
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Posted: 8/27/2015 10:02:30 AM EDT
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In my mind's eye I see this story as a movie. Tim is Billy Bob Thornton, Binary is the sword fighting chick from "Kill Bill" whose name escapes me, etc,etc.
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Posted: 8/27/2015 5:08:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PIDDLER:Binary is the sword fighting chick from "Kill Bill" whose name escapes me, etc,etc.
Thanks again for the story and update DCB! Uma as BC?...choke yourself. 
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Posted: 8/28/2015 9:58:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By stimpsonjcat:
Uma as BC?...choke yourself. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By stimpsonjcat:
Originally Posted By PIDDLER:Binary is the sword fighting chick from "Kill Bill" whose name escapes me, etc,etc.
Thanks again for the story and update DCB! Uma as BC?...choke yourself. Oh well, off to choke myself 
( I am an old curmudgeon and don't know all the new Hollywood heavy hitters)
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Posted: 8/28/2015 10:04:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PIDDLER:
Oh well, off to choke myself
( I am an old curmudgeon and don't know all the new Hollywood heavy hitters)
Same here...but Uma is too old. BC needs to be a younger girl IMO. |
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Posted: 8/28/2015 1:13:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By stimpsonjcat:
Same here...but Uma is too old. BC needs to be a younger girl IMO. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By stimpsonjcat:
Originally Posted By PIDDLER:
Oh well, off to choke myself
( I am an old curmudgeon and don't know all the new Hollywood heavy hitters)
Same here...but Uma is too old. BC needs to be a younger girl IMO. Rhonda Rousey? Great update DC! |
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Posted: 8/28/2015 2:58:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By seelbo:
Rhonda Rousey? Great update DC! Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By seelbo:
Originally Posted By stimpsonjcat:
BC needs to be a younger girl IMO. Rhonda Rousey? Great update DC! Younger. Chloë Grace Moretz, with her Hitgirl attitude. |
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Posted: 8/28/2015 3:44:42 PM EDT
[#40]
Great update as always!
Thanks, TriumphRider |
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Posted: 8/30/2015 9:04:48 PM EDT
[Last Edit: wingsnthings]
[#41]
DC, it's been a fun ride and look forward to seeing the finished book. Also look forward to sequels. Just reread IR, was there meaning to the boat not being targeted in Billy`s dream? Appreciate your work. Sometimes I can be kind of dense (my wife would agree). Nathan.
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Posted: 8/31/2015 1:31:52 AM EDT
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GENERAL NOTE: progress very slow but steady. No one more amazed than I. Might be appropriate to start thinking about one month out. Obv. I must be very careful about hard dates. But....getting close. At some point I will begin IM'ing likely readers/buyers on possibility review. You have all already written the best reviews I will ever have, and they are buried in these footnotes and comments. --skywarp989, I will take what I can get. Much thanks. --highstepper, yes you probably have a good idea of at the very least the "range" of possibilities. I have had several very informed speculations sent by IM. But so far, I am pretty sure I have some unexpected 'permutations'--and at this point, I, and you, and everyone should probably not speculate in public. Hints and mentions of like minds can very often take on a kind of critical mass: what cannot be seen can be determined by molecular weight, gravity, distortion, shadows in the right light. So....hush. Hush, everyone. --StimpsonJ, just killing it man. Just killing it. The "depth" of Tolkein's worlds simply confounds. And done in pen and ink, and hand typed, and hand corrected, and typed again. No word processor for this bard and poet and seer. Eowyn and the Witchking will be a battle for another time, another book. Maybe ten or twenty years from now. These are grand battles in this scale, but skirmishes compared to what will come, I suppose. A big task here is to keep the scale "small"--a general armageddon witnessed by characters we know very well, with the big national and international stuff in the background. All catastrophes are local, for the participants. This will be a Tim Bassinger quote in the next installment. He doesn't much care about Europe, when he is getting his face ripped off, for instance. And neither will we. "Belt-feds"--oh yeah. And a few other tricks. Sometimes the old stuff works pretty good. And Gehr Waffenfabbrik has a deep view to history. Now StimpsonJ I might have missed something about money? Now your job and everyones will be to buy a book for less than a decent burger, and pimp it to their friends, and in their reviews. Later I might come up with something metallic, and you can crank some parts together, and ponder something drinkable from the proper distance. A big part of what is just a dream, at this point. We shall see, ST. I like to avoid "money" as much as possible for many reasons, but I am almost always willing to trade? If I could trade books for bullets, I would, for instance. Or coin. No such mechanism exists on the scale I need, hence....Amazon, et al. --airsix, very glad you liked that. Many tricks to repaint picture. This is one. Also a savant voice is like primitive art--it has no artifice or deception. Very raw. A key measure of autistics/etc./other impairments is the inability to recognize or calculate or manifest "deception." A very endearing view of the world, when everybody else is lying. --zoe17, much apologies. That stings a little, that I am so tardy you stopped checking. In the future I am pretty sure I will be able to propose much more rigorous schedules. Not yet, and just a hope. But we shall see. --grywlf52, good to see you. And yes this will read much better and make vastly more sense when you can see the events as a weave, and not a string. --Field/MP, much thanks, and your avatar is one of several that causes a spontaneous pulse of laughter every time. Just never gets old. The Death Cult, named and cartooned. Perfect. --Call2Arms, much appreciated and from a distance, too. The book all in one piece is not that far away. --ny15, much thanks. Speed still an issue, obv. Trying hard not to promise too much. --Former11B, another deep ear on something I will have to fix. Difference between fiction/ printed page words/what might be said. I agree it looks "dissonant" and every time you guys pick up on something, pretty much without exception, you are correct. The meaning and "tone" of Tim's language can be kept same same, but modified, less "wet/nasty" and it will be. Will fix on edit. --Piddler, crack me up. Billy Bob and Kill Bill. Um....let's not date ourselves, mmkay? The comments below max funny. Piddler, google "crossfit girls"--and poke around. Binary is pure punk/tech/post-modern. As the country fractions, and it is, we are seeing an explosion of subcultures. Binary and her sisters are real. Socially liberal libertarians with a very harsh view of big .gov--they watch particularly information tech, food tech, media tech. As I've said before, some of them are our friends. --StimpsonJ, Piddler just needs to root around a bit on the interwebz. He will find what he needs. --Piddler, understood on modern culture. Billy Gehr doesn't have the vaguest idea who Madonna Not the Mother of Christ is, other than as a minor haggard blasphemy aging into oblivion, and he could care less. And we don't care either. --StimpsonJ, like Maria, I have a Binary in mind. An acquaintance only. But I've seen a few. Quite a few in Austin, for instance. Start with crossfit girls, and your looking for the ones who aren't quite so intoxicated with themselves, and can code. They are out there. Binary is 22, by the way. Makes sense, right? ( a wink goes here... um...binary...why not double down on...binary.... ) --Rhonda Roussey, much like, ( what's not to like? ) and if you ever see her interviews she is "gearing down" for the interview format, much like Sandra Bullock--much more going on with these ladies than media can manage in short bursts, and they both have a lot to protect. Rhonda is having a much deserved good time, but pretty good chance she is capable of substantive conversation. Sandra Bullock, you are looking at a world class genius who is always courteous, and polite, and just profoundly kind, and fully understands that most of her or any audience would find it incomprehensible, that for instance, she speaks fluent German. --cpaspr, I see where you are going. Try Camille Leblanc-Bazinet, with same attitude and vibe of Vesper Lynd (sic?) "The Money" in first of new James Bond films. Massive wattage. Synapses to spare. Snap, crackle, pop. --TriumphRider, much thanks. Must. Keep. On. --wingsnthings, much thanks and book on the way. On Injured and boat, not dense at all, very complicated plot/story/timing/background. Short version: very difficult to explain concept "signalling" in warfare/combat/conflict--so--on the way to the boat, "The Object of Value" might be captured/destroyed, so the target is the men carrying same. Once on the boat, object is most certainly lost, so the point of conflict becomes "sending a message"/signalling, in other words--in this case, the signal is to "raise the price/cost" of moving the object, and exact retribution. But retribution, WITHIN LIMITS, same as modern warfare. Killing the boat is a big deal. Understand that the opposition would be virtually certain that extra measures would be offshore ( as they are ) to make sure that the object of value is safe. (And no party here wants an international incident). So. Very much the same as conflict between super powers, where all out war means nukes, what we have left is "signalling/ posturing." Not very satisfying if you happen to be a casualty. But nevertheless, that is where we are. So, continuing, the target would still be the men on shore. You will find this language buried in Injured. Read from "pitiful puppet Presidents" down to "Better to let Billy and his men die. As long as they got The Bitch away." That might help clarify the setting, background, stakes. Also note that as soon as the boat returns, it becomes a valid target, just a very difficult one. The boat/Gretzky raised the stakes. Gretzky to save his men, the opposition to suppress an escalating threat. You can bet Gretzky caught a barn full of shit for going back for his men, and you can bet Gretzky could care less, had a beer, and scuttled the boat of the coast of Sardinia. GENERAL NOTE: much thanks to those of you who find search phrase: 'DCBourone Kindle Single Injured Reserves' To those of you who are new here, or lurking, Injured Reserves is a kind of moral bible of the Gehr Family, and a key reference between and amongst all who live in the Gehriverse. Injured was written by a member of the Gehr Family, who will make himself known in later books. "Combat is the control of your adversary in the three dimensions of space, across the fourth dimension, of time...." search (Kindle Single Injured Reserves) Thank you, DesignatedMarksman. Ok, back to work. DCBourone -- |
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Posted: 8/31/2015 9:34:33 AM EDT
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Whooh!!!
It's good to see another update. I can't wait until the timeline to the book's release is upon us. As said above it has been a great ride!
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Posted: 8/31/2015 3:27:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone:
Now StimpsonJ I might have missed something about money? Now your job and everyones will be to buy a book for less than a decent burger, and pimp it to their friends, and in their reviews. Later I might come up with something metallic, and you can crank some parts together, and ponder something drinkable from the proper distance. A big part of what is just a dream, at this point. We shall see, ST. I like to avoid "money" as much as possible for many reasons, but I am almost always willing to trade? If I could trade books for bullets, I would, for instance. Or coin. No such mechanism exists on the scale I need, hence....Amazon, et al. DCBourone[/span] -- [/span] Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone:
Now StimpsonJ I might have missed something about money? Now your job and everyones will be to buy a book for less than a decent burger, and pimp it to their friends, and in their reviews. Later I might come up with something metallic, and you can crank some parts together, and ponder something drinkable from the proper distance. A big part of what is just a dream, at this point. We shall see, ST. I like to avoid "money" as much as possible for many reasons, but I am almost always willing to trade? If I could trade books for bullets, I would, for instance. Or coin. No such mechanism exists on the scale I need, hence....Amazon, et al. DCBourone[/span] -- [/span] I was responding (badly) to your comments... Originally Posted By DCBourone:
"down to the Arfcom/Sboards promo of 2.99. I suppose this could be as far as two months out, but I doubt it. I have about 10,000 more words to fiddle with. They are composed, but crude. Right now the text is at 124,000 words, or almost 500 pages by Amazon e-book layout. The last 4-6000 words will not appear on this site. Everything is pirated at some point, including texts as obscure as Injured Reserves, but I cannot afford to make it easy. Will post new information as it becomes available." I was merely trying to verbalize my desire to buy your book. If you're getting close you probably ought to send me a file or two. |
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Posted: 8/31/2015 4:09:53 PM EDT
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DC,
I'm back from travels and back to your story, nice update on your latest posting, sorry for the troubles in your way. I took the time since returning to run back through the story to refresh myself and dip the subconsciousness into your stream of thought (after all subconscious communication is older than any human language). I also read again your brilliant "injured Reserves", the prose that hones the razor's edge of this tale. Have you ever heard the phrase "The Yarragh"? The term was invented by the great Irish Papal Count John McCormack to reference occasions when a voice can break through the normal boundaries and limitations of direct human communication. William Butler Yeats, once wrote about the “Yarragh.” he explained it as the "Yarragh" was a cry of and from the heart, a haunting and haunted sound that could be found in Celtic (and particularly Irish) song and poetry. It was sorrow and lamentation for what had been lost, it was anger and self-righteousnessness, it was the truest expression of a soul. Listen to Van Morrison's deepest works and you can glimpse it off on the horizon of a darkening sea. Anyway, you have the gift the "Yarragh", is it lonely? |
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Posted: 8/31/2015 4:46:01 PM EDT
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A side note:Good lookin youngun there DM )
I'm stoked now DCB. Bring it on ! |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 2:48:00 AM EDT
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I'm still here, still reading, still loving the story.
Keep it up! |
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Posted: 9/2/2015 8:32:55 PM EDT
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"And whence the tale be found whole, verily I shall gather it unto mine hand, and pimpest it mightily unto my brethren."
-Julius Caesar |
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Posted: 9/2/2015 9:12:33 PM EDT
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Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense now.
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Posted: 9/2/2015 9:49:04 PM EDT
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Thanks for the update. We all know how challenging life can be. Keep up the great work. I still check a few times from 2100-0800 for updates. I have not lost faith, just eager to read another great chapter. I hope you continue to keep the story alive and would gladly purchase the book anytime.
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