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louann_m.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com wrote:
> ... or else a slightly mangled metaphor.
>
> "Echoes of Honor," end of chapter thirty-one. Admiral Alice Truman, on
> the possible consequences (negative, to her) of an action she found
> morally imperative:
>
> "... at least this way I'll still be able to sleep with myself...."
>
> Louann "I've heard of the loneliness of command, but wow" Miller

Well, with the proper cloning technology I guess you could...
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On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:48:29 -0500, Dan Swartzendruber
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>In article <1133563837.078735.227820 DeleteThis @g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>louann_m@yahoo.com says...
>> ... or else a slightly mangled metaphor.
>>
>> "Echoes of Honor," end of chapter thirty-one. Admiral Alice Truman, on
>> the possible consequences (negative, to her) of an action she found
>> morally imperative:
>>
>> "... at least this way I'll still be able to sleep with myself...."
>>
>> Louann "I've heard of the loneliness of command, but wow" Miller
>
>I hadn't even noticed that. Sounds like a conflation of "at last i'll
>be able to look myself in the mirror" and "at least i'll be able to
>sleep at night".

At this way I'll be able to live with myself...
--David Salmansohn--

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On 2 Dec 2005 14:50:37 -0800, "louann_m@yahoo.com"
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>... or else a slightly mangled metaphor.
>
>"Echoes of Honor," end of chapter thirty-one. Admiral Alice Truman, on
>the possible consequences (negative, to her) of an action she found
>morally imperative:
>
>"... at least this way I'll still be able to sleep with myself...."
>
>Louann "I've heard of the loneliness of command, but wow" Miller

I'll call it a mangled metaphor.
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On 2 Dec 2005 20:39:09 -0800, tu160.DeleteThis@yahoo.com
allegedly declared to alt.books.david-weber...
>louann_m@yahoo.com wrote:
>> ... or else a slightly mangled metaphor.
>>
>> "Echoes of Honor," end of chapter thirty-one. Admiral Alice Truman, on
>> the possible consequences (negative, to her) of an action she found
>> morally imperative:
>>
>> "... at least this way I'll still be able to sleep with myself...."
>>
>> Louann "I've heard of the loneliness of command, but wow" Miller
>
>Well, with the proper cloning technology I guess you could...

Cue Asimov's "Oh Give me a Clone"...

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Bad Dreams?

louann_m RemoveThis @yahoo.com wrote:
> ... or else a slightly mangled metaphor.
>
> "Echoes of Honor," end of chapter thirty-one. Admiral Alice Truman, on
> the possible consequences (negative, to her) of an action she found
> morally imperative:
>
> "... at least this way I'll still be able to sleep with myself...."
>
> Louann "I've heard of the loneliness of command, but wow" Miller
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Yaknow, it occurs to me that one thing we haven't seen in the Honor
Harrington books is a dream sequence. I'd be vaguely interested in
seeing what some of the characters dream about.


Rick wrote:
> Bad Dreams?
>
> louann_m RemoveThis @yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> ... or else a slightly mangled metaphor.
>>
>> "Echoes of Honor," end of chapter thirty-one. Admiral Alice Truman, on
>> the possible consequences (negative, to her) of an action she found
>> morally imperative:
>>
>> "... at least this way I'll still be able to sleep with myself...."
>>
>> Louann "I've heard of the loneliness of command, but wow" Miller


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"When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of
childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis
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Jeffrey MacHott wrote:
> Yaknow, it occurs to me that one thing we haven't seen in the Honor
> Harrington books is a dream sequence. I'd be vaguely interested in
> seeing what some of the characters dream about.

There was one at the start of "Shadow of Saganami," and it was
apparently a straightforward informative flashback of real events.

(Unless I've misunderstood you and you're not counting that as a main
sequence HH book)
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Don Sample wrote:
> In article <1133711114.666967.179990.DeleteThis@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> "louann_m@yahoo.com" <louann_m.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Jeffrey MacHott wrote:
>>
>>>Yaknow, it occurs to me that one thing we haven't seen in the Honor
>>>Harrington books is a dream sequence. I'd be vaguely interested in
>>>seeing what some of the characters dream about.
>>
>>There was one at the start of "Shadow of Saganami," and it was
>>apparently a straightforward informative flashback of real events.
>>
>>(Unless I've misunderstood you and you're not counting that as a main
>>sequence HH book)
>
>
> I think he was thinking more along the lines of the sort of dream with
> cigars and tunnels, and dancing midgets who speak backwards, and cheese
> guys, and arriving late for the briefing, and discovering that all the
> Space Lords are there, and that they expect you to brief them, when you
> thought it was the other way around, and oh, by the way, you forgot your
> uniform, and you're naked...

LOL, that reminds me of some of the dream sequences on Babylon 5.
Commander Ivonova had one where she showed up at Command and Control...
"totally unprepared for my duties."

"Well, at least you weren't naked. You'd REALLY have some psychological
problems then!"

But yeah, I was thinking of the more cerebral type of dream sequence,
though Shadow of Saganami was one that I hadn't remembered.

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"When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of
childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis
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"Loren Pechtel" <lorenpechtel RemoveThis @remove.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 2 Dec 2005 14:50:37 -0800, "louann_m@yahoo.com"
> <louann_m RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>... or else a slightly mangled metaphor.
>>
>>"Echoes of Honor," end of chapter thirty-one. Admiral Alice Truman, on
>>the possible consequences (negative, to her) of an action she found
>>morally imperative:
>>
>>"... at least this way I'll still be able to sleep with myself...."
>>
>>Louann "I've heard of the loneliness of command, but wow" Miller
>
> I'll call it a mangled metaphor.

In my own scribble I try to modify sayings. Sayings sometimes change and
using the old ones all the time seems wrong.
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