{"id":236,"date":"2007-01-14T12:45:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T07:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/01\/14\/new-heights-of-geekdom\/"},"modified":"2007-01-14T12:45:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T07:15:41","slug":"new-heights-of-geekdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/14\/new-heights-of-geekdom\/","title":{"rendered":"New Heights of Geekdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Crap! I&#8217;ve taken a quantum jump to a new level of geekdom! I&#8217;ve progressed from merey reading comics to discovering continuity errors in them. Specifically, in Fables.<\/p>\n<p>In Fables #12, it&#8217;s revealed that the Fables have been in New York since it was called New Amsterdam- which means that they&#8217;ve been refugees for at least the past four hundred years.<\/p>\n<p>But in Fables #4 (Remembrance Day), King Cole says that Narnia was the second Fable dominion to be conquered by the adversary.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, what gives? If they&#8217;ve been refugees for four hundred years, then the first invasion was would have been at least four hundred and fifty years ago. But Narnia wasn&#8217;t imagined until the beginning of the twentieth century- maybe even the later half.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you could postulate that Fable time isn&#8217;t in step with Mundy time, but that would reallly be the easy way out.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, immediately after I realised this, the following SMS exchange took place with <a href=\"http:\/\/davenchit.livejournal.com\">davenchit<\/a>, who I&#8217;d introduced to Fables.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: I just realised that there is a major continuity goof in Fables<br \/>\n<strong>davenchit<\/strong>: Hmm i am still in office and not in the mental frame but &#8211; something to do with bigby after he leaves fable town?<br \/>\n<strong>Me<\/strong>: No. Don&#8217;t remember exact issues but Fabletown has supposedly been existence for over two centuries. but one of the first conquered lands was Narnia, which wasn&#8217;t imagined until eighty years ago.<br \/>\n<strong>davenchit<\/strong>: You know i think you&#8217;re right remarkable. Of course if you postulate a platonic world of eternally existing fables with resonances picked up by human minds then you would have no inconsistency<br \/>\n<strong>Me<\/strong>: True but that&#8217;s the easy way out. Also if that were the case then a fable&#8217;s present popularity should not determine her indomitability.<br \/>\n<strong>davenchit<\/strong>: I imagine this is how the religious argue ;o)<\/p>\n<p>Heh. A schism has begun. There shall now be a great holy war between the once united Fables fans.<\/p>\n<p>And on an aside, isn&#8217;t it wonderful that the T9 dictionary includes &#8216;indomitability&#8217;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Crap! I&#8217;ve taken a quantum jump to a new level of geekdom! I&#8217;ve progressed from merey reading comics to discovering continuity errors in them. Specifically, in Fables. 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