The Suffering Body
written by Elias, filius Nechanorré, of House Savacion
Those who praise this volume as proof of a belated nascence of a Savacion literary tradition engage in hyperbole that rather insults the House, ignoring as they do the flawless evocation of the seasonal round of a highland forest to be found in the Silvanus of Scolopax, or the admirably muscular prose of Vir Macer’s meditations on seigecraft—whose introductory essay is still used as a sterling example in compositional exercises for apprentices throughout the Order. —Those who condemn this volume as wicked, no more moral or ethical than a hollow book, are less sanguine, but no less hyperbolic: we do not spurn those remnants of a dark house for the methods those magi used to acquire their dark knowledge, after all; those methods were little more than the writing and labwork performed by any magus. No, we condemn the hollow books for the nature of the knowledge they contain, on summoning and binding, on the arousal of dark passions, on the abuse of power. Nothing of that sort is to be found within the pages of the Corpus, and fixating on what the author must have done to learn some of the more gruesome details of the body’s destruction is an immature reaction to a powerful and comprehensive work.
That fixation also ignores the author’s singular relationship with the pain which he describes—an intimacy that charges the book’s central conceit, analyzing the sensations of and reactions to pain itself as stages of the high holy calendar, with a power and immediacy all too rare in the works of our Order. Corpus dolorosus is a worthy addition to any library’s shelves, and the welcome debut of a strong new magical mind, no matter his House. We hope to hear much more from him.
More to be done.
I need to clean it up and set up the shelves, but I have to go to work. More in a bit.
Help!
Can anyone tell me why it absolutely refuses to use my alternate link and insists on using the full title, no matter what I do?
You can't have a space in the
You can't have a space in the wiki path. That may be the problem.
But I don't, darn it!
I keep replacing "wiki/Corpus dolorosus" with "wiki/corpusdolorosus" and it's there in the preview but then when it's saved it's back to "wiki/Corpus%20dolorosus."
The alt link is registered, because "wiki/corpusdolorosus" does work. But the main link is saved as "wiki/Corpus dolorosus" and there's nothing I can do to change it and every time I edit it it flashes that red warning at me that my link is bad.
This is true of every link I've made this morning with a space in the title: I try to create an alt link without the space, it registers it, but it doesn't use it. (The "wiki/silvanus" link works fine, but it doesn't have a space in the title: then, it also doesn't try to change "silvanus" to "Silvanus," and with the problem links, it does change the capitalization.)
I seem to recall this was a problem under the old set-up, but there was an option under admin that let you universally change link paths. I can't find that here. Anyway: the links work; it's just a little ugly, and when you try to edit the pages, you have to fix the alt link text every time, since it thinks it's broken. But it won't save what you fix it to.
Also, I couldn't figure out how to make the wiki entries I made turn out to be wiki entries: that option wasn't on the list, or something. Maybe I'm missing some crucial step. Anyway.
Hey, it's doing the same thin
Hey, it's doing the same thing to me! Fun! The first one I did (Z's illus string) is fine, but the next I made got the wiki path all screwy.
But it worked when I went bac
But it worked when I went back & created my entry as a wiki node. At first I used "book", which was wrong & didn't work.
Okay...
I don't see "wiki node" as an option. I made 'em all "documents," I think.
You have to make the initial title legal as a link name
Use a legal link name as a title (say corpusdolorosus), then go back and edit the entry to have Corpus Dolorosus as a the title. It tries to use the straight title as the link name, as well as the alternate link.
Anyway, that's what it seemed to me to be doing.
So noted for future endeavors.
Do we need to strip out the old entry and rebuild it from scratch? —Can we even delete old entries?
No need to rebuild it
If you just go into the entry and change the title proper to a legal name, submit it, and then edit it again to give it a nice title (leaving the alias the same), then everything seems to work fine.
So did he give a copy to Gi?
That's so sweet!
Actually, I suppose he might have given a copy to Calvus when Calvus was visiting (or even to Sonata, but I doubt it). Or if he wrote it earlier than I was thinking, books do make their way quickly to Bethelion, and the body in pain might be a useful subject for someone interested in self familiarization...
Thought I'd tried that.
But apparently I hadn't, because I just tried it again, and it worked. Thanks!
Go Elias!
brrr......
Go Elias!
brrr......
Jenn was amused by the idea.
Though I think Gi is probably pretty squicked by the book itself. —But yeah: Elias is keen on validation, go figure, and probably spent a couple of seasons copying it out and sending it to all the places one ought to send such books. Then again, he'd've been profoundly embarrassed by it, so he didn't tell anyone at Isrillion he'd even written the thing until it was accepted, so here's Gi getting ready to go, and suddenly Elias all awkward-like's presenting him with this little black book no one's seen before, and Gi maybe not even looking at the frontispiece until he's on the road. Though I do think Calumnia knew, somehow, which is one of the reasons why the Censor's report is so firmly dismissive of even the hint of diabolism; politics, politics, everywhere, in every drop of ink.
Keen on Validation
Elias is keen on validation, go figure...
::spit take::
You know, I think that "keen on validation" might actually be the most accurate three-word summation of Elias' character that I can even begin to imagine?
Anyway, go Elias! It sounds a most poetic work, really.
As for the squickiness factor, I suspect that Tydfal finds it squicky as well, but less due to the subject matter per se than due to how very...oh, attractive such a book would make the subject matter appear to him. He's a weakness for aesthetics, you know.
As, it would seem, does the Antrum Censor.