The hmmnmmMusement Hall

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[kendo1]

Zzzzzzzzzzz.

Sorry, I'm not awake yet.

Coffee.

 

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[tickledkitty]

What are you musing?

 

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[glynndah]

Is it writer's block when I have the stories floating around in my head and they just won't flow down through my fingertips and into the keyboard?

 

[damppanties]

Is it writer's block when I have the stories floating around in my head and they just won't flow down through my fingertips and into the keyboard?

I call that my laziness.

 

[glynndah]

I call that my laziness.

Ah ha! So you're the one to blame. Thank you. That makes me feel much better. Any idea when I can expect your laziness to ease up? I could take a nap while I'm waiting.

 

[damppanties]

Ah ha! So you're the one to blame. Thank you. That makes me feel much better. Any idea when I can expect your laziness to ease up? I could take a nap while I'm waiting.

I don't know. Can't be predicted. Comes and goes.

 

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[damppanties]

Or different people just work different?

That.

 

[glynndah]

*sigh* I liked the answers better when she was responsible. Now, on to the next question: Just how many clicks away from the original site I googled do I have to go before it's no longer research and firmly entrenched in the "goofing off" column?

 

[cloudy]

*sigh* I liked the answers better when she was responsible. Now, on to the next question: Just how many clicks away from the original site I googled do I have to go before it's no longer research and firmly entrenched in the "goofing off" column?

42.

If anyone finds my muse in this Musement Hall, please send her home.

 

[TxRad]

42.

If anyone finds my muse in this Musement Hall, please send her home.

Last we saw of your Muse, she was riding a Moose and drinking a Molson......

 

[cloudy]

Last we saw of your Muse, she was riding a Moose and drinking a Molson......

Typical.

 

[glynndah]

42.

If anyone finds my muse in this Musement Hall, please send her home.

I should have known. The answer's always 42, isn't it?


*counts the links* Oh, good. I've got 17 left to go.

 

[cloudy]

I should have known. The answer's always 42, isn't it?

always. *nods*

 

[TxRad]

always. *nods*

Mathgirl figured it out on the slide trombone.....

 

[Grushenka]

Hmmnmm: Do you know the origin of the word museum? Beginning with the ancient Greeks, special edifices were devoted to temples of learning dedicated to the muses. In the Alexandria of the Ptolemies (Greeks), a temple called The Hall of the Muses was devoted to promoting the known 'arts and sciences'. A few dozen scholars were housed, fed and supported there (by the Ptolemies, the last being Cleopatra who herself did medical research); many visiting scholars came by invitation. The famed library was within walking distance.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Hmmnmm: Do you know the origin of the word museum? Beginning with the ancient Greeks, special edifices were devoted to temples of learning dedicated to the muses. In the Alexandria of the Ptolemies (Greeks), a temple called The Hall of the Muses was devoted to promoting the known 'arts and sciences'. A few dozen scholars were housed, fed and supported there (by the Ptolemies, the last being Cleopatra who herself did medical research); many visiting scholars came by invitation. The famed library was within walking distance.

I always wonder what the stacks looked like in that Library.

There would have been many scrolls; but with that many books (at least as many as they say) some of them had to have been cuneiform on clay, and some finger-painted with ocher on rocks and leaves...

 

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[Grushenka]

I always wonder what the stacks looked like in that Library.

There would have been many scrolls; but with that many books (at least as many as they say) some of them had to have been cuneiform on clay, and some finger-painted with ocher on rocks and leaves...

An average book might be 3 to 6 individual scrolls long. If memory serves, The Iliad and Odyssey were a dozen or so scrolls long. Cylindrical cases were made to house the books so they could be stacked without crushing the scrolls.

And yes, there were many clay and wooden books.

Readers were not allowed to browse the stacks. They made their requests and the books were brought to them in special rooms. It was a rare occurence that anyone was ever allowed to borrow a book (take it from the building).

 

[Grushenka]

Some of this sounds familiar, as in I probably read about it somewhere, but it wasn't a conscious motivation to test the viability of this one we are in today.

I was not at all questioning your thread title, just thought you might enjoy knowing you were in the same league as western civilization's ancestors.

Oops, forgot about the feeding.
What do they like to eat?

Don't know what you mean. They?

 

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[kendo1]

Soup.