(my comment on the discussion under “Summer Vacation” by Forrest_of_Holly)
I have rather complicated history with the Deathly Hallows. I have bought the book six hours after it was published (no I couldn’t bother myself to get up at midnight) while on the work-related conference in Birmingham (I am …
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Read More(my comments on “The Augurey” by La Matrona, originally published on Reddit)
What is my pet-peeve is when the characters behave like idiots just to keep the plot together. Let’s see. I have just deleted “The Augurey” from my computer.
First of all, just let me state, I have …
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Read More(my comments on “The Character Development of Ginny Weasley” by u/goodlife23)
For me the main idea of everything written (originally, I have this from an excellent book by Walter Kerr “How Not to Write a Play”) is that the plot (and character development and many other things in any …
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Read MoreOriginally published as “Harry & Ginny are brother and sister” on Reddit.
I see it like this. Lily was already pregnant with her second child (it is slightly over a year between Harry and Ginny so it is biologically possible), when they found out about the Prophecy and need to hide …
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Read More(my comments on “the thread on reddit”)
I have been thinking about this thread for the last couple of days, and I am sorry I let myself to be side-tracked into a stupid argument about the Christianity and religion and stuff. Right now I read “Harry Potter and the Knight …
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Read More(my comments on “What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?” by angua9)
As I wrote elsewhere, I am not a big fan of Harmony stories (stories, where the main pairing is Harry/Hermione), but when they happen, I usually don’t discount them automatically, and some of them are …
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Read MoreWhen John wrote about himself he didn’t see himself us an evangelist, a gospel-writer, an apostle, he identified himself as the one whom Jesus loved.
The situation where John leaned on the Jesus’ chest: we cannot just read it, we have to have the experience it ourselves. Living like …
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Read MoreNěkde v nějaké diskusi jsem zmínil, že přece každé malé dítě ví, co je Geiger a tak jsem neodolal a přepíšu sem příslušnou úvahu Karla Čapka (ze sbírky novinových sloupků „V zajetí slov“, Svoboda, Praha, 1969, str. 135):
To přece ví každé malé dítě. To mi řekl jeden automobilista, když …
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Read More(my comments on “Canon and the Moral Dimensions of Killing in War” thread on reddit)
This is no question of agreeing and disagreeing with me. What I wrote was not exactly my opinion (which I specifically emphasized), but what I consider the prevalent notion among Europeans. Discussion here is very …
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Read More(my comments on the thread “Probably gonna catch some hate for this. Religion and Mythology and its place in fiction.” on Reddit by RhysThornbery; edited for this blog)
The question is about the role of religion [1] in the HP universe, and it is very interesting one. I am a …
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Read More(my comments on “Terms of Matrimony” by Galad Estel)
First of all, this story has broken link on Fanfiction.net, so I have had to look up and down all over the Internet to find that only working copy known to me is at ff2ebook.com link shown above. Even …
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Read MoreFor some inexplicable reasons vim-editorconfig stopped working with my latest build of neovim. I am not sure why and I haven’t have enough time to debug it properly. As a workaround I have temporarily (?) switched to editorconfig-vim. The former plugin is all written in VimL, so it was not …
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Read More(my comments on “A magical love affair” by charmed9292)
I have to admit reading of this story was an exercise in frustration for me. I think the general idea of Petunia and Severus crying over one another’s shoulder is a great. Both of them are nicely complicated and somehow …
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Read MoreAristotle in the seventh and eighth chapter of his Poetics writes:
Now, according to our definition, Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is complete, and whole, and of a certain magnitude … As therefore, in the other imitative arts, the imitation is one when the object imitated is one …
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Read More(review of Must Have Changed A Lot)
This certainly works as a one-shot, but as many (most?) fanfics it is necessary to distinguish between exposition and story. There are zillion fanfics with at least interesting exposition (OK, so not only "what if Harry was a girl/has a sister"), but …
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Read More(kázání pronesené ve sboru ČCE Praha-Braník, 29. července 2018)
Po Janově uvěznění přišel Ježíš do Galileje a hlásal evangelium Boží. A říkal: „Naplnil se čas a přiblížilo se Boží království; čiňte pokání a věřte evangeliu.“
—Marek 1:14-15
Když se zeptám křesťanů na to, co je evangelium, většinou dostanu celkem …
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Read MoreI have tried to suggest update of Migration Guide for RHEL7→CentOS7 migration, but apparently after CentOS was bought by Red Hat, there is not enough desire to document such migration, ehm ehm. So, just recording this for posteriority:
URLBASE=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages cd …
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Read MoreMovie “Loving Vincent” is certainly an experience worthy of the tickets to go to the cinema. The main idea of it is to make “animated” film by painting endless number of quality oil paintings in the style of Vincent van Gogh about the painter himself. I have been warned that …
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Read More(odpověď v interním dotazníku KDÚ-ČSL)
Podle mého „na jednání o naší případné účasti ve vládě přistoupit“. Zde je můj komentář (který se do formuláře nevešel).
Zároveň zcela souhlasím s tím, že lidovci (a každá politická strana) vstupovala do voleb s tím, že jsou ochotni se zasazovat o správu věcí veřejných …
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Read More(komentář k diskusi na Facebooku k včerejší diskusi prezidentských kandidátů panů Drahoše a Zemana)
Byl jsem z té včerejší diskuse upřímně nešťastný (tedy z pěti minut, které jsem vydržel sledovat).
Ne, proto, že by novinář Primy byl neschopný minimální novinářské práce a jenom se snažil přivést diváctvo co nejvíce do …
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Read More(a comment to the blogpost by Robert O’Callahan)
I think the truthfulness among Christians is overrated. Here, I said it.
OK, before saying anything else, I have to say that being honest is very important, and I know what I am talking about. I had my brush with an …
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Read MoreThis is to prove for Disqus case ID: 524317 that I control this website.
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Read More(z emailové diskuse)
K obavám z roztříštěnosti:
Pokud v prvním kole bude mít Zeman více než 50% hlasů, bude zvolen. Pak je úplně jedno, kolik hlasů dostane Drahoš a Fišer. Pokud v prvním kole nedostane více než 50%, a předpokládejme, že do druhého kola se dostane, pak záleží na kandidátovi …
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Read More(Update later: this review was written in December 2017, when the latter story was somewhere around chapter 24; it would be probably too self-centric to think, that the author read my review, but the fact is that the later chapters of the story seem to address some of my objections …
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Read More(originally written as a comment on the blogpost by Gregory Szorc)
Some comments:
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