In a way the problem he's trying to solve in the story is a kind of antagonist.
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In a way the problem he's trying to solve in the story is a kind of antagonist. His research into maritime warfare and armaments is itself a character in the story. And because it *is* a character someone will write a fan fiction about the man in some kind of romance with his research. Can you imagine?
It's not cannon, this ship of thesis.
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In a way the problem he's trying to solve in the story is a kind of antagonist. His research into maritime warfare and armaments is itself a character in the story. And because it *is* a character someone will write a fan fiction about the man in some kind of romance with his research. Can you imagine?
It's not cannon, this ship of thesis.
@futurebird Does “antagonist” mean the bad guy, when you say it?
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@futurebird Does “antagonist” mean the bad guy, when you say it?
On the origins of the word "antagonist":
Anyone who gives agony to ants is bad, obviously. Therefore the "ant agonist" is the one in the story who makes the ants miserable. The bad guy.
(I know this isn't the real etymology but it is the true *entomology* of my heart)
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On the origins of the word "antagonist":
Anyone who gives agony to ants is bad, obviously. Therefore the "ant agonist" is the one in the story who makes the ants miserable. The bad guy.
(I know this isn't the real etymology but it is the true *entomology* of my heart)
@futurebird @Virginicus I was trying to explain midges to a German. Searching for the word for swarms of tiny flying biting insects, my brain helpfully offered up that surely entomology had something to do with this. "Ente" means "duck."
I nearly said "During the warmer months you get millions of ducks to the face."
"Ducks to the face" has joined the familect to describe any adverse conditions including weather that hit sideways.
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@futurebird @Virginicus I was trying to explain midges to a German. Searching for the word for swarms of tiny flying biting insects, my brain helpfully offered up that surely entomology had something to do with this. "Ente" means "duck."
I nearly said "During the warmer months you get millions of ducks to the face."
"Ducks to the face" has joined the familect to describe any adverse conditions including weather that hit sideways.
"duck to the face" is a phrase that William Gibson gets hung up on in one of his books.
Something visceral about the sequence of words.
A quote from Pattern Recognition
William Gibson — ‘He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.’
(www.goodreads.com)
