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<div class="bop-text">ok we start with david finding a room to rent that he lives in in the next book

> [ed.25/9]  Chapter 1: The Spark   0
I know this is a common word but... oh boy. the implications of this in context

- bonnington named after mountain climber   3

> nor was it a cutesy, cartoon sort of thing   5
you haven't convinced me of that

- you didn't see the dragons move   5,33
in their own way, these are garage dragons.

> the ark   14
is the mom actually a creationist Christian or not? that is a hilarious thing to say if not
while if she is, it raises strange lore implications for this series. biblical dragons?? a weirder narnia??

- scanning everywhere for the interesting squirrel   30
- fire observed in Dragon's den   31

we need to establish squirrels because they're mischievous and have a life of their own   27
you also expect cats to be like that but not necessarily sculptures

now we have gotten into an elaborate theme of how david said you can't interfere with nature but nothing in a human yard is fully natural and everything is subject to human artifice   47
I'm struggling to figure out what this is saying about the dragons

consistently none of them believe the dragons are moving   60

there is a certain irony in how david later submits the story about squirrels and it gets rejected although this book was mostly about squirrels   63

> he's always been with you. I just gave him shape   64

> I saw you with a squirrel. where did it go?   66

> I'll get it! David cried ... only to stumble in the garden hose   67

is davids dragon the first one capable of communication   67
it's sort of like the dragons and the other game pieces around them build the superstructural fantasy story

this is literally voodoo in its simplified definition isn't it   83

letting liz's secret out   100

ok, we get a clear payoff to the notion that gawain is evidently a story made up to forget dad   106

if we're taking this painfully literally like most of this book it could be taken as how creating art, like most communication, is only tracing the outward outline of a deeper mental model   111
and david is focusing on the lineart instead of the hidden raytracing step, so he can't art
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