Agh, vowels! Yes, those too! Wait, that's not how you pronounce pasty? I've always pronounced it that way too. And my toddler has just started being interested in how letters sound and oh man, I feel so bad every time I try explaining to him that "T makes a t sound but A makes an aaaah or an ahhhh or an ae sound…" It would totally make sense for him to start with memorizing a bunch of words.
The piano sticker experiment has been tried, funnily enough. That's exactly what one of my friends came up with, after I failed to make any progress any other way. It got me to the point where I could press the keys in the right order, but even after quite a bit of practicing, it was still very slow, and sounded nothing like music.
Wait, ok, I'm glad this experiment was tried (although maybe you're not :) ) because this is really interesting to me that this didn't work. I would have thought that pressing a sequence of numbers would be quick, not slow, for someone who has technical skill — it might still not sound much like music, but I would have thought the failure mode would be more along the lines of doing it too quickly. So — at work I have to badge in by pressing a sequence of five numbers; these five numbers are the same every time, but they come up on the keypad in random order. Would this be difficult/slow for you? Would 10-15 numbers be difficult/slow for you? That is, I assume the problem is not remembering the sequence, given your excellent working memory, and given the stickers (or a keypad) the problem shouldn't be translating from one modality to another. Therefore, it seems to me the problem must either be the actual mapping (in which case I'd expect you to have trouble with both a piano and a randomized keypad) or the addition of sound confusing your brain (in which case I'd expect you to have trouble with the piano, but not the keypad).
…um, if you ever get tired of my performing thought experiments on you, feel *totally free* to ignore me :) (I expect that is fairly clear, but thought I'd verbalize it just in case.) I think you have just engaged my "I really want to understand how this works" buttons :)
He's referring to Tillerman, but it sounds to me like Liza picked the name Dicey. And then never explained it.
That… sounds rather plausible, and I have this whole story in my head now as to Liza knowing that Frank gambles, and naming Dicey after dice as some sort of, I don't know, talisman against it? But that's all in my head, I have no textual evidence besides what you've just presented (which I like).
“I know that,” Cisco answered.
Agh! Of course he knows, the jerk.
“She won’t marry me. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t much mind not being married. I told her I’d marry her, when she was pregnant. But not Liza. She even gave the kid her name, because I wasn’t at the hospital to stop her. Tillerman, like I had nothing to do with it. She wouldn’t have done that if I’d been there, I wouldn’t have let her, you can believe me. It’s not my fault— I told her I was willing. But not Liza. Just like her, too, stupid. If we were married they’d send her half my wages, more than half with a kid or two.”
“Have you ever been married?” she asked. He wasn’t the only one who could be nosy. “No,” he said. But there was something in his voice, some difference, as if he might be lying, or as if he might wish he were married, or as if there were some sad story behind that simple no. She stared at his back, and wondered.
Yeah, right there the "No" is actually the truth, but he should have been married, so to speak. I agree, I don't think it would have stopped him from running off (though if his wages were garnished maybe it would have been easier for Liza), and maybe I'm being too nice to Frank to believe what he says to Bullet, but I actually am inclined to believe that he would have married her if she'd pushed the issue, given that he does in fact go back to her four times and gets them a house… his statements to Bullet that we can check, I think, mostly are lies in terms of degree (although I'm mostly thinking of the house here), not wholesale falsification like his lies to Honey — so I'd believe, for example, that he never actually told her he'd marry her (as he told Bullet) but that he would have been willing to if she'd pushed it.
I don't know of any other James in the books. I wonder where that name came from too.
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Date: 2017-08-13 04:11 am (UTC)The piano sticker experiment has been tried, funnily enough. That's exactly what one of my friends came up with, after I failed to make any progress any other way. It got me to the point where I could press the keys in the right order, but even after quite a bit of practicing, it was still very slow, and sounded nothing like music.
Wait, ok, I'm glad this experiment was tried (although maybe you're not :) ) because this is really interesting to me that this didn't work. I would have thought that pressing a sequence of numbers would be quick, not slow, for someone who has technical skill — it might still not sound much like music, but I would have thought the failure mode would be more along the lines of doing it too quickly. So — at work I have to badge in by pressing a sequence of five numbers; these five numbers are the same every time, but they come up on the keypad in random order. Would this be difficult/slow for you? Would 10-15 numbers be difficult/slow for you? That is, I assume the problem is not remembering the sequence, given your excellent working memory, and given the stickers (or a keypad) the problem shouldn't be translating from one modality to another. Therefore, it seems to me the problem must either be the actual mapping (in which case I'd expect you to have trouble with both a piano and a randomized keypad) or the addition of sound confusing your brain (in which case I'd expect you to have trouble with the piano, but not the keypad).
…um, if you ever get tired of my performing thought experiments on you, feel *totally free* to ignore me :) (I expect that is fairly clear, but thought I'd verbalize it just in case.) I think you have just engaged my "I really want to understand how this works" buttons :)
He's referring to Tillerman, but it sounds to me like Liza picked the name Dicey. And then never explained it.
That… sounds rather plausible, and I have this whole story in my head now as to Liza knowing that Frank gambles, and naming Dicey after dice as some sort of, I don't know, talisman against it? But that's all in my head, I have no textual evidence besides what you've just presented (which I like).
“I know that,” Cisco answered.
Agh! Of course he knows, the jerk.
“She won’t marry me. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t much mind not being married. I told her I’d marry her, when she was pregnant. But not Liza. She even gave the kid her name, because I wasn’t at the hospital to stop her. Tillerman, like I had nothing to do with it. She wouldn’t have done that if I’d been there, I wouldn’t have let her, you can believe me. It’s not my fault— I told her I was willing. But not Liza. Just like her, too, stupid. If we were married they’d send her half my wages, more than half with a kid or two.”
“Have you ever been married?” she asked. He wasn’t the only one who could be nosy. “No,” he said. But there was something in his voice, some difference, as if he might be lying, or as if he might wish he were married, or as if there were some sad story behind that simple no. She stared at his back, and wondered.
Yeah, right there the "No" is actually the truth, but he should have been married, so to speak. I agree, I don't think it would have stopped him from running off (though if his wages were garnished maybe it would have been easier for Liza), and maybe I'm being too nice to Frank to believe what he says to Bullet, but I actually am inclined to believe that he would have married her if she'd pushed the issue, given that he does in fact go back to her four times and gets them a house… his statements to Bullet that we can check, I think, mostly are lies in terms of degree (although I'm mostly thinking of the house here), not wholesale falsification like his lies to Honey — so I'd believe, for example, that he never actually told her he'd marry her (as he told Bullet) but that he would have been willing to if she'd pushed it.
I don't know of any other James in the books. I wonder where that name came from too.