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Will the Book Two preorders come signed like Book One was?
Posted by uthor at May 9, 2008 04:54 AM
98.214.72.4
Prepare for whining:
Hooray for book two. May I suggest though, that the type of reader who is most likely interested in the deluxe package with the shirt and art work is exactly the type of person who most likely already owns book one.
Posted by bat at May 9, 2008 05:05 AM
12.218.175.253
Bat: Ooooh, good point.
I will rectify this later tonight! Thank you for whining!
Posted by spike at May 9, 2008 07:33 AM
68.20.17.131
Among the Hmong (a tribe originating from southern China), epilepsy in children is considered a sign that that child will become a great shaman. They believe that a child's soul is not as tightly rooted as an adults and that a seizure is what happens when something (a loud sound or a fall) frightens the soul out of their body. They will often tie small pieces of string around children's wrists and ankles to symbolically tie the soul down.
To anyone interested in learning about other cultures -- particularly not very well known ones -- "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman is a very good read.
And Gene ... he doesn't look very happy about the party or whatever it is. :( At least they didn't cut his hair ... yet.
Posted by Kitty at May 9, 2008 09:19 AM
24.85.38.56
Hey Spike!
I'm in the awkward position of being about to move (moving mid-June, to be specific). So I was wondering if you have any idea when book 2 will start shipping?
Posted by Amy at May 9, 2008 12:27 PM
99.225.228.98
I've already preordered the book through Previews. Will that show in your progress bar ?
Posted by Wood at May 9, 2008 12:32 PM
81.250.228.11
Amy: In all likelyhood, late June/early July.
Posted by spike at May 9, 2008 12:32 PM
68.20.17.131
Wood: Previews orders don't count, since the pre-order drive aims to pay for printing, and Diamond pays NET30 after delivery!
Posted by spike at May 9, 2008 01:12 PM
68.20.17.131
There's also Geschwind syndrome, a form of temporal lobe epilepsy which often causes, among other things, excessive verbal or written output, decreased sex drive, heightened emotional responses and hyperreligiosity. Combined with seizures ("visions"), this seems like the perfect disorder for a prophet.
Posted by Lukas at May 9, 2008 01:51 PM
83.248.213.30
Phineas Rage shirt, ROCK! I already have a copy of book 1, but I need a sketch and a shirt, so some lucky friend of mine is gonna get a free book soon.
Posted by Nicole L at May 9, 2008 02:29 PM
138.192.31.108
yeah... Vodun, eh? Don't be too rose-tinted about that lot. Disabled kids aren't the only ones who get picked up by the priests. There's also trokosi, girls who are put into ritual servitude as payment for the sins of their (male) family members. From as young as five. And then there's the female genital mutilation, the witch-hunting, killing twins...
Interestingly, the worst Vodun practices aren't done by Vodun priests - they're done by Christians, especially in DRC/Cameroon/Congo. Christianity and Vodun fit quite nicely with each other, but in a way that brings out the worst in both (that's what Haitian voodoo is, Catholicism + Vodun). If someone thinks a kid is a witch, for example (in the system, people just ARE witches - they don't choose it, they're born that way) they get taken off to church in Brazzaville or somewhere for exorcism. And that can last for months. The idea is to get the devil out with pain...
Vodun's pretty interesting, tho - all the Gods are related in an inter-tribe structure, they're all each others cousins or whatever from Togo to Senegal. All the wars, allegiances, big events - all lived by the people and the Gods together. You've got to respect that.
OK, that's my schpiel done... everyone needs a topic to obsess about, right?
(Also, voodoo dolls aren't voodoo - they're English, used to be called 'poppets'. When the white folk were booted from HAiti, they brought back stories of witchcraft, but they hadn't been paying attention to what the black folk were doing, and had to rely on their own culture's witching practioves instead. So there you go!)
Posted by coelacanth at May 10, 2008 10:57 AM
81.107.38.200
There's a fantastic comic book by David B. about growing up with an epileptic brother in France in the 1970s. After they've exhausted all the normal medical options his parents start moving outside -- to macrobiotics, Swedenborgian spiritism, spiritualism, the A.M.O.R.C., and on and on. They try an exorcism, baptisms, pretty much anything and everything they can think of. The book's very black -- both in subject matter and in tone. There's a LOT of black ink on the page, to the point where the rare splotches of white are downright shocking.
Posted by Horace Walpole at May 11, 2008 05:36 PM
216.57.213.220
You KNOW it's good booze when it comes in a jar.
Posted by sushi jones at May 11, 2008 06:02 PM
64.230.34.40
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