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## Rational Inkheart?
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* Author: u/High_king_of_Numenor *
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* URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/3mfh4d/rational_inkheart/
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* Score: 1
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* Created: 2015-09-26T04:56:50
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### Post:
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I feel like this series would be GREAT for a rational rewrite, but I haven't come across any. Are there some out there, or does it just not exist?
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What would be your take on it?
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How long before you ruled the world, if you had access to that power?
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### Comments:
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> **u/jldew** [+6] (45 minutes later)
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> If I'm not mistaken, you can basically bring anything what so ever into existence simply by writing it and reading it aloud, right? So about five minutes, give or take.
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>> **u/High_king_of_Numenor** [+5] (an hour later)
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>> There are limitations.
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>> Without finding the book again to check, I'm pretty sure that size seems to be limited to about a car, advanced technology seems impossible/impractical, and the accuracy of an object seems dependent on both the reader's concentration and the verisimilitude of the text.
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>> (Any or all of this may be wrong, it's been years since I read this book)
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>>> **u/Transfuturist** [+3] *Carthago delenda est.* (2 hours later)
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>>> > advanced technology
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>>> Fuck that, infinite photons. Energy crisis, solved.
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>>>> **u/PeridexisErrant** [+4] *put aside fear for courage, and death for life* (9 hours later)
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>>>> > infinite photons. Energy crisis, solved.
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>>>> Along with such problems as the unfortunate tendency of the sun to rise each morning and the paucity of cislunar black holes...
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>>> **u/None** [+3] (9 hours later)
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>>> [deleted]
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>>>> **u/High_king_of_Numenor** [+1] (12 hours later)
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>>>> AFAIK:
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>>>> Magical items were never read into existence, which leads me to believe they couldn't, as that would be incredibly useful.
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>>>> The cash fund thing is entirely possible (happens in the story), although It'd be a bit hard to wander up to a bank with five metric tons of gold that 'fell out of a book' without drawing undue attention.
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>>>>> **u/chaosmosis** [+2] *and with strange aeons, even death may die* (12 hours later)
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>>>>>
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>>>>> Does Dustfinger count as a magic item?
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>>>>>
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>>>>> Does a fairy?
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>>>>>> **u/High_king_of_Numenor** [+1] (12 hours later)
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>>>>>> Those are living things, which apparently are a different category, according to the power.
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>>>>>> I think.
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>>>>> **u/whywhisperwhy** [+2] (13 hours later)
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>>>>> From a wealth-building perspective (which is always my default first step) I would think using a variety of objects would work well: like gemstones, jewelry, ancient coins. Or ultra-expensive rare commodities/substances like scorpion [venom](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3565uw/til_scorpion_venom_is_the_most_expensive_liquid) or [painite](http://www.businessinsider.com/most-valuable-substances-by-weight-2014-9?op=1), rare [books](http://www.cracked.com/article/18368_7-books-we-lost-to-history-that-would-have-changed-world/) or the recipe to greek fire... It might take a bit of research but I think you could easily be wealthy. So with that taken care of, I guess the next step is probably figuring out what other limits there are- you said advanced technology doesn't work, but are there any known limits before the cut-off? What about devices that aren't much more advanced than what we already have?
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>>>>> From a technology perspective,
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>>>>>> **u/High_king_of_Numenor** [+1] (14 hours later)
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>>>>>> The (largely undefined) limit that I observed seems to cut off somewhere around the industrial revolution, although that may just be because they just didn't read anything past that into reality (although why this would be, I couldn't guess.)
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>>> **u/chaosmosis** [+3] *and with strange aeons, even death may die* (12 hours later)
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>>> Additionally, I'm pretty sure that what counts as a "story" is not unlimited. Maybe the writers were all just being prissy, but they frequently insisted that they couldn't write just anything they wanted into a story, and that it had to fit well with the world they were creating.
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>>>> **u/High_king_of_Numenor** [+2] (12 hours later)
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>>>> I'd think that falls under verisimilitude, however it is a good thing to point out on it's own.
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> **u/eaglejarl** [+2] (17 hours later)
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> > Are there some out there, or does it just not exist?
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> [Yes,](https://www.fanfiction.net/book/Inkheart/) there are [a few](https://archiveofourown.org/works/search?utf8=✓&work_search%5Bquery%5D=Inkheart).
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