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– not a great example of wargaming helping a positive state of mind, he’s physically and mentally declined a lot and is pretty much a hermit by this stage!
Hmm? Sounds a bit too close for comfort Robert. Thanks for that!
There are great swathes of writing out there I have no knowledge of whatsoever. The only book of Moorcock’s I remember reading is ‘Wizardry and Wild Romance’ which is about epic fantasy rather than being (at least in theory) epic fantasy.
Under duress I will also confess to never having read War and Peace all the way through (please tell me Pierre Bezukhov is a wargamer) in one go.
So I was hoping for hundreds of solo wargamers of admirable social integration and happy demeanour to emerge from the page. Looking a bit thin so far.
The Dice Man – another artefact excavated from the ‘Things I ought to get round to reading/doing’ trench. Good input.
Never read it – heard lots about it. Sounds fundamentally flawed. Who creates the list corresponding to the dice rolls? Or the choices or whatever? Who would make you go through with it? (All good questions for solo gamers).
If I’m a cautious type I’m not going to put ‘Abandon safe well paid job in law firm’ on the list after an epiphany on a Friday night in the pub with other junior solicitors and articled clerks am I? No siree bob.
And if for a laugh I did, would I go through with it with nothing worked out about what to do next? No. I’d say it was a mad idea and carry on in a well paid, secure, growing profession. And if I were a slightly jump first look second type would I need a list and a cube to do that? Prob not.
Silly idea.
As for being solo wargaming, not sure where the game is, beyond throwing dice? Unless life is a game and nothing matters. Now there’s pause for thought.
Maybe Mick was right – solo gaming is bad for your mental health!
Any more solo wargamers lurking in Dickens, Dorothy L Sayers, Alistair MacLean, Penelope Lively, Hemingway, Elif Shafik? Anywhere? Anyone?
PS – Ivan, I can let you have a complete set of the 1812 Pokemon if you bung me a couple of grand. Okay? (pounds not dollars)
– not a great example of wargaming helping a positive state of mind, he’s physically and mentally declined a lot and is pretty much a hermit by this stage!
Hmm? Sounds a bit too close for comfort Robert. Thanks for that!
There are great swathes of writing out there I have no knowledge of whatsoever. The only book of Moorcock’s I remember reading is ‘Wizardry and Wild Romance’ which is about epic fantasy rather than being (at least in theory) epic fantasy. Under duress I will also confess to never having read War and Peace all the way through (please tell me Pierre Bezukhov is a wargamer) in one go. So I was hoping for hundreds of solo wargamers of admirable social integration and happy demeanour to emerge from the page. Looking a bit thin so far.Moorcock’s (who the hell has a name like more cock?) last Elric novel was published in 2o22, so he’s probably not that decrepit. There’s a new White Friars due this year.
They could be ghost written I suppose.
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The Dice Man – another artefact excavated from the ‘Things I ought to get round to reading/doing’ trench. Good input. Never read it – heard lots about it. Sounds fundamentally flawed. Who creates the list corresponding to the dice rolls? Or the choices or whatever? Who would make you go through with it? (All good questions for solo gamers). If I’m a cautious type I’m not going to put ‘Abandon safe well paid job in law firm’ on the list after an epiphany on a Friday night in the pub with other junior solicitors and articled clerks am I? No siree bob. And if for a laugh I did, would I go through with it with nothing worked out about what to do next? No. I’d say it was a mad idea and carry on in a well paid, secure, growing profession. And if I were a slightly jump first look second type would I need a list and a cube to do that? Prob not. Silly idea.
Don’t waste your time. It’s up there with ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ in the Compleat Bolox lists.
“Typical American ‘end of the summer of love’ nihilist tripe.” is my review. 🙂
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Funnily enough an American gave me Zen and the Art of Boring People, he said it would change my life.
He was right: I wasted hours messing about with engines I’d have been better paying someone who knew what they were doing to fix. And I never made a shim from a Coke can! The shame.
I thought Moorcock was dead. Apparently not.
Funnily enough an American gave me Zen and the Art of Boring People, he said it would change my life. He was right: I wasted hours messing about with engines I’d have been better paying someone who knew what they were doing to fix. And I never made a shim from a Coke can! The shame.
I thought Moorcock was dead. Apparently not.I read “Zen” and the “Dice Man” when I was an angsty teenager. Even the angsty teenager recognised that they were a bit rubbish, and not at all life changing.
Years later, in my forties, I read them both again in case a few decades of real life had altered my outlook, and I’d missed some subtleties at 18. Angsty teenage was still correct at 42.
Which, existentially, probably means I’m talking bollox 🙂
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