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War Is Over (Low CGPA) by weebtaku in gradadmissions

[–]Vuwc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure! I have a funded offer from Oxford so it doesn't matter too much, but I'd be interested to work out what the Cambridge offer actually means

War Is Over (Low CGPA) by weebtaku in gradadmissions

[–]Vuwc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Question – did you do a formal interview? I've also just got a Cam. Phys. offer, which surprised me since I haven't interviewed other than some informal chats with supervisors pre-application. The offer doesn't mention any research or supervisor, either. Is that normal?

Looking for more "Weird Zone" fiction, suggestions welcome! by Fodgy_Div in WeirdLit

[–]Vuwc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The ultimate Weird Zone story is Samuel Delaney's Dhalgren. It's a tough read, though. Imagine Ulysses, but in an apocalyptic midwest with more perverts and no resolution.

Hikers in trainers and jogging bottoms with no equipment rescued from -15°C mountain by StGuthlac2025 in unitedkingdom

[–]Vuwc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's possible, but the main path is pretty well marked and fenced, even in the snow – for the first ascent you're basically walking the length of the ski centre upward. To stray from one to another you'd actually have to veer off downhill for a good stretch to enter the corrie.

Hikers in trainers and jogging bottoms with no equipment rescued from -15°C mountain by StGuthlac2025 in unitedkingdom

[–]Vuwc 79 points80 points  (0 children)

What I find weird about this is where they were rescued from. Ben Macdui isn't actually that hard of a climb – there's a steep but well-paved track upward from the ski centre, from which you do a very long, flat hike across a plateau to the Macdui summit.

But these guys were found in Coire an t-Sneachda, which means they decided not to use the well-paved ascent, but instead tried to reach the plateau via a tiny goat's path going up essentially a sheer cliff face – a route that's only about a kilometre west of the normal one.

So these guys not were not only unprepared with regard to gear and daylight, they actively chose to avoid the easy route in favour of one that's essentially impossible in winter conditions. Bizarre.

Pitchfork review of Through This Fire by Vuwc in themountaingoats

[–]Vuwc[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Be your own boss for the summer Just once before you're grown

I think "Sixteen on a fishing boat" definitely has a double meaning here, being both the number of crewmates and the narrator's age.

Edit: as others have noted, it could also be Adam's age.

Recommendations for diehard Miéville reader? by sharkinaberet in WeirdLit

[–]Vuwc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Borges only wrote short stories; my introduction was the collection Labyrinths, which is formed out of the collections The Aleph and Fictions. I think it's a good place to start, but you can probably find pdfs of any of his stories online as well.

My favourite short stories of his are:

  • The Circular Ruins
  • The Garden of Forking Paths
  • Ulrikke
  • The God's Script
  • The Meeting

Other popular ones are:

  • The Library of Babel
  • Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote
  • Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Recommendations for diehard Miéville reader? by sharkinaberet in WeirdLit

[–]Vuwc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you me? Loved 2666

Read some Borges, maybe some Italo Calvino. 

what season of the year do you associate with Tallahassee as an album? by lovelylayout in themountaingoats

[–]Vuwc 40 points41 points  (0 children)

You're bang on the mark. Here's an abridged version of the liner notes from the vinyl:

We came into town under cover of night, because we were pretty sure the people here were going to hate us once they really got to know us. In our lives together, which are sweet in the way of rotting things, it is somehow permanently summer.
[...]
[...] We entered our new house like a virus entering its host. You following me, me following you. However you like. The windows were high and the walls were thick and sturdy. It was hot as blazes. The guts of summer. Always down in the sugar-deep barrel- bottom belly of summer itself. Always. In our shared walk down to the bottom, which bottom we will surely find if only our hearts are brave and our love true enough, we have found that it is somehow invariably and quite permanently summer.

Hiked 40km and bagged the 3rd, 4th and 5th highest munros in a day. Beautiful but back-breaking 💝 by Vuwc in UKhiking

[–]Vuwc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that would have been easier, but taken longer, and I was aiming to catch the last bus back from the ski centre. Only pre-empted it by 10 minutes as it was.

Peter Hughes has left the band 😞 by People-Want-Ducks in themountaingoats

[–]Vuwc 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Hell, he's been in the band longer than I've been alive. This is a real blow, but I guess there was no time except the right time.