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Page size is an important factor here. A paperback novel sized book is better one column per page. An 8.5x11 or larger handbook or text is usually better either two columns, or with lots of boxes and charts and graphics that break up the monotony. If a column of text gets too wide, then it's more difficult to track back from the end of one line and find where the beginning of the next is, instead of accidentally re-reading or skipping a line. It can be done, but it slows the reader down unnecessarily.

Pandora's dilemma definitely reminds me of Ashildr, from Doctor Who, a Viking girl who became immortal sort of by accident. Infinite lifespan, finite memory. She started keeping a journal with the most important things in her life, to re-read when she had forgotten who she used to be. It filled a respectably-sized library in her home and spilled out into the halls the second time the Doctor encountered her. There were places pages were stained with tears, places where pages had been torn out because she wanted to forget what those pages held. But she only knew what was in the diary as something she had read about. One wonders whether someone like that could actually learn the important lessons in life, or whether they too would be forgotten along with the details of how they were learned. Apparently she could, though, because the person who the Doctor met at the end of the universe was very different from the girl he saved from dying. They did something visually similar with Methos's diary in Highlander, kept since writing was invented, with parts of the diary on papyrus scrolls and cuneiform tablets. In that series, however, Immortals have excellent memories so I never really got the impression Methos needed the diary. From what Pandora and the Emissary of Magic said, it sounds like an Immortal only passes along what the most recent incarnation chooses to pass along. There isn't an ever-growing library of mental tomes. Or, if there is, the older ones must be much harder to access than the most recent one. Perhaps they're nested, like a hard drive archive with files for a previous archive that contains a previous archive which contains the recovered files from a crash which contains.... Hmm, wasn't there an xkcd on that? ....yup, there sure is!

Well, she accepted it, as long as it came from a nurse. We're switching back to 4x a day dosing, though. 4am/10am/4pm/10pm, if it works, 15mg per dose. That'll start tomorrow, because I've already taken my 20mg dose for this morning. Quite frankly, the nurse was perplexed at why I wasn't taking the full dose. I didn't get a chance to explain Mrs. Prof's paranoia over the whole thing. Besides, I'm only going to be at that level for two days prior to the procedure. I'm more scared over the procedure than I am over the medication, to be honest. She doesn't seem to be worried at all over the procedure.

Your vet is better suited than I am to decide that, but it sounds like it's definitely worth a phone call to see what they think!

I honestly never put a lot of that into it before. But thinking on it now...it depends on a few factors. For text-books, technical guides, and tabletop RPG books like a Player's Handbook, I prefer two-columns. For novels, or for electronic reading that I can scroll from top to bottom, I prefer single column per page. Though, other than the vertical scrolling, I wouldn't be able to tell you way I prefer them that way outside of general familiarity. My guess would be that it has something to do with the ratio of font size and page size. Technical books often have a lot of information and typically have a limit on the page count (more an issue for dead-tree format than electronic, but old standards tend to get carried over if there is not a strong enough reason to abandon the standard, and some books do get produced in both formats), so they shrink the font size and use multiple columns to fit more information per page. Novels, on the other hand, tend to be less information dense and so are less likely to strain under a page limit, and can more easily have content cut or altered to better fit if it is straining to meet the page limit. Personally, if you can do both without serious problem, I say you should do both.

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I am sorry. I have an idea of how hard it must be for both of you. I spent years being terrified of medication, too, so I have at least an inkling of how she feels. Please tell her that she has my sympathies and that I hope you will both make it through this. If you wish me to, I'll relate some of my own experiences. I am not sure if they will be of any use but they might possibly give a little perspective.

All said, we have been given only tantalizing glimpses into the nature of immortals. Their ability to become nearly clairvoyant also hinges on letting go of things like empathy that would cloud said clairvoyance. By allowing Tedd into her heart, Pandora is also hindering her ability to see what is coming. The rendering of the warring sides of Pandora's mind presents us with something more substantial than shoulder angel/demon hallucinations, suggesting they are more real? But is that an indication of disfunction or function. Are they a sign of Pandora have multiple personality disorder, or are Immortals capable of putting on wholly rendered personalities like masks, and perhaps only their getting out of hand is the only breakdown? Remember when child-like Pandora had a tantrum in front of the Dream Wizard? Didn't that feel real, and not just an act? We know they reset, creating another container for their selves with passed down information but keeping their intrinsic nature, effectively the reset is on their actual knowledge (not inofrmation) and power, and we also know they can lie to themselves in passing down this information. So would it be any weirder for them to have multiple current Personalities for their intrinsic selves to play in? They are shapeshifters; perhaps the shapeshifting is not just physical. Also, we are taking for granted that there are two options, reset or madness. For a race that seems to lack coordinated sharing of "cultural information," perhaps we should questions those assumptions. Perhaps other options exist, such as transcending or evolving into something else.

Also how could one not involve the Hammer Queen in the forging of a new hammer artifact.