The Steel Orb: The Anthology (Minor Works)

Product details File Size: Publications April 5, Publication Date: April 5, Sold by: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Showing of 1 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Within the Steel Orb is an amazing book by one of the most interesting minds to put pen to paper. The seemingly random qualities of each chapter that jump radically in genre, tone, and development finally culminate in a pair of fantasy tales at the end, where the widely varied path across hills and valleys of thought and emotion finally all come together in a surprisingly smooth class reunion.

This outwardly strange gathering of seeming strangers comes together lovingly with many common roots and histories. The elegance of the last two stories stand on their own, but it is fascinating to see what happened to get there in the author's mind. Ultimately, this is a story of Jonathan's travels in a thoughtscape most of us would envy for its verdant color depth, beautiful vistas, elegant architecture, constellation-filled skies, and warm friendly atmosphere. I remember reading the great books in college and becoming acquainted with the minds of Pascal and so forth.

In theory with the current population of the Earth, there should be as many such great minds wandering among us as ever existed. Yet the signal to noise of media drowns all such genius most of the time. Jonathan is a wonderful exception. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.

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Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Not Enabled Word Wise: How could the trees be beauteous, flowers so gay? How would those learned trees have followed you? You would have drawn them, and their poet too. For, since you're gone, They're here the only fair, and shine alone. You did their natural rights invade: We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day.

I would Love you ten years before the Flood; And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast; But thirty thousand to the rest: An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart.

For, lady, you deserve this state; Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear Time's wing'ed chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song. Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity: And your quaint honour turn to dust; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

Now, therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Till the warm sun pity its pain, And to the skies exhale it back again.

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Dark beneath, but bright above: How girt and ready to ascend. Such did the manna's sacred dew distill; White, and entire, though congealed and chill. Magnanimous Despair alone Could show me so divine a thing, Where feeble Hope could ne'er have flown But vainly flapped its tinsel wing. And yet I quickly might arrive Where my extended soul is fixed; But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.

For Fate with jealous eye does see Two perfect loves, nor lets them close; Their union would her ruin be, And her tyrannic power depose. And therefore her decrees of steel Us as the distant poles have placed Thought Love's whole world on us doth wheel , Not by themselves to be embraced, Unless the giddy heaven fall, And earth some new convulsion tear, And us to join, the world should all Be cramped into a planisphere. As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.

Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars. So, in this world, may many others be Thinner and less, and less still by degree: Although they are not subject to our sense, A world may be no bigger than two-pence.

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Nature is curious, and such works may shape, Which our dull senses easily escape: For creatures, small as atoms, may be there, If every one a creature's figure bear. If atoms four, a world can make, then see What several worlds might in an ear-ring be: For, millions of those atoms may be in The head of one small, little, single pin. And if thus small, then ladies may well wear A world of worlds, as pendants in each ear.

One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike: To the same goal did both our studies drive, The last set out the soonest did arrive. Thus Nissus fell upon the slippery place, While his young friend performed and won the race. It might what nature never gives the young Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betrayed.

Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their prime Still showed a quickness; and maturing time But mellows what we write to the dull sweets of rhyme. Once more, hail and farewell; farewell, thou young, But ah too short Marcellus of our tongue; Thy brows with ivy, and with laurels bound; But fate and gloomy night encompass thee around. Now Betty from her master's bed had flown, And softly stole to discompose her own.

The slipshod prentice from his master's door Had pared the dirt, and sprinkled round the floor. Now Moll had whirled her mop with dexterous airs, Prepared to scrub the entry and the stairs. The youth with broomy stumps began to trace The kennel-edge, where wheels had worn the place. The small-coal man was heard with cadence deep, Till drowned in shriller notes of chimney-sweep, Duns at his lordship's gate began to meet, And brickdust Moll had screamed through half the street.

The turnkey now his flock returning sees, Duly let out a-nights to steal for fees; The watchful bailiffs that their silent stands; And schoolboys lag with satchels in their hands. As to that false appearance which appeals to the reasoner As of a Globe rolling thro' Voidness, it is a delusion of Ulro. In truth the prison, into which we doom Ourselves, no prison is: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom! No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more; The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

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Research every suggestion to fully understand their use cases 8. Refine data list to remove suggestions that are unfavorable for whatever reason Discuss and plan alternative solutions to suggestions that are unfavorable but could be addressed in another way Assign Materials to specific material storage collections Experience data loss, resetting progress back to step 7, thus undoing all the hard parts I just did Experience crushing demoralization and wallow in sadness for days while numerous people try to help recover work.

This is why you should never save your docs locally and nowhere else. Acceptance of lost data and thorough avoidance of redoing work while advancing through stages of grief Put on big girl pants and redo steps Document proposed changes Present final list to design team for last minute objections and additions Adjust design as needed. More than I should do from a pure numbers standpoint, so if you are going to try making a case for adding anything else to this fairly exhaustive list than you should know it will be an uphill climb.

If anything, I am looking for cuts to this list, not adds. Here are some notes on how we chose what: The ways I softened but did not eliminate this rule is two fold: I just felt that there were too many and there were more important things that crafters were more likely to be holding on to for longer.

I believe there are WAY better solutions to this problem. Just consume them, geez. I spoke with the WvW designers and they felt that this would create a bad user experience for players who legit use blueprints. There is a combination of technical issues and a lack of desire for those to work that way. There are way too many and there is a whole host of reasons why you just get a no. Please just use these. There are better solutions for keys that we have not yet had time to pursue and I want to leave room for us to do those things instead.

Once an item has been added to Material Storage, it can never be removed or moved to a different category. We count these as trophies used for guild hall decorations which I already mentioned we opted to not include. I discussed these with the Fractals team extensively throughout the process and they opted to investigate other solutions. I do not want to put in consumables of this nature. Used in very few things at a low cost. It is a trophy used in two things, one of them being a decoration.

Things to think about a bit more: We said no to these largely because of how you get them and use them. They are bought from a vendor and can be immediately consumed by crafting low-ish cost items with them. I will check in with the WvW team to see if they disagree with that sentiment. If I am going to put in Icy Runestone, I should probably put in this one as well. I have almost zero desire to put all 25 into storage, but I will rethink Crests specifically because of their inclusion in Amalgamated Gemstone crafting. This is going to be a tough one.

There are a lot of items here.

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As far as things to cut, I would question the need for space for stuff you buy from Miyani eldritch scroll, philosopher stones, etc. Given that those items are only used in the mystic forge, having them purchasable right next to the forge makes them easy enough to get to as is. Linsey, it is an awesome list you have there.

It sucks that you had to repeat steps , but the player base will love you for it. They were very popular suggestions and the way I figure it is that you can often be left with extras or be holding on to them for a long time before use. Right now, I am OK with shipping this list as is. As others have said, sorry to hear u had to repeat all that work, that would have been very frustrating.

How about you add a check and if the account has , say a permanent Bank Access or other permanent, it quits dropping them and drops something useful or make them so you can sell them for something instead of just flushing them to make room. Tomes of knowledge and Black lion Chests please. Come to me, my beloved bank space!

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I can stop selling off doubloons just to avoid the hassle of guild hopping to a personal guild bank and only sell them when I need the coin. I can work on Scribe again! It ground to a halt due to generating materials I had no room for. Extraneous Miyani mats will stop hogging room! With the possible excetion of mystic forge stone: This is way, way more than I expected. I, as others, would be happy with whatever makes it into storage out of this list. Came to offer my heartfelt thanks for your dedication to this project, and thanks for all you do. I would like to second this.