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Top 10 part two's out too.

I have what my father calls the "Catalogue Gene". Information fits in my head by connecting itself with as many other facts and factoids as it can.

I was rereading Sandman's The Wake tonight, and I found what I thought was an allusion to the Discworld:
Trade paperback, Page 59, frame 3:
Lucien: Do you know Bhartari Raja? This is the Bhartari Raja. Old, old friend of mine. Bhartari, Matthew.
Bhartari: Pleas, no. Not Bhartari, Lucien. I am presently living under the name of Silas Tomken Cumberbatch, like Winnie the Pooh and Mister Saunders.


Silas Cumberbatch, of course, is the former town crier who wants to join the Watch in Men At Arms. I've Googled the name, and apparently the full version is a pseudonym used by Coleridge (according to the Sandman Annotations. (However, according to a different page, Coleridge's pseudonym's middle name is spelt Tomkin.)

Sat down with Androo & Steven tonight and watched Harry Potter (and Philosopher's Stone - CoS doesn't come out until Thursday in Aus). 'Twas the first time they'd seen it - a travesty!

Date: 2002-11-23 04:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nys.livejournal.com
maybe it is also to do with the semantic network theory... a theory that information is stored in our brain in overlapping grids connected by meaningful links.. (or something) so then retrieval of some information aids retrieval of connected information.
*note to nys: psych is over...*

Date: 2002-11-23 05:01 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (thoughtful)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Something like that. It's more than just memory retrieval, though. It's the desire to fit everything into a sort of web...all connecting up.

Date: 2002-11-23 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venusrose.livejournal.com
Guess what? I have now seen harry potter and the philosophers stone! Yay! :-)

Date: 2002-11-23 05:23 pm (UTC)
ext_12944: (curious)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Er...yay!

Are you coming with us Thursday to watch Chamber of Secrets?

Date: 2002-11-23 07:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dorukai.livejournal.com
Ooo! Fantastic :)
I'm rereading Top 10 at the moment. Fun fun fun.

For the record, I gave Luke Usagi Yojimbo: Grasscutter for his birthday, so if you want to borrow borrow League for a long enough period of time to let you reread it several times that's fine.

Shall I bring it on Tues?

Re:

Date: 2002-11-23 09:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venusrose.livejournal.com
i didn't even know you were going, but i can't anyway, coz i have to work

Date: 2002-11-24 02:51 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
*rubs hands* If you're fine with letting it out of your sight... >:D

Date: 2002-11-24 04:03 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (sorry)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
That sucks. However, we will be going at some stage in the future, as Nat can't come either.

Date: 2002-11-24 02:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dorukai.livejournal.com
Well, I've now read it twice. I should be good for a bit.
Besides, I have to read American Gods ;)

Date: 2002-11-25 06:08 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (thoughtful)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Yeah. American Gods ROCKS.

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