Things You Do When You're Bored
One of the great things about committing yourself to writing stories is all of the little tidbits of information that you need to research in order to make them coherent. Last week, I was researching the proper method for scrying as it would have been done by scholarly magicians in the renaissance. This week, I am researching the customs of the Tiriyo, a tiny tribe of two thousand people who live in the rainforests for Suriname.
There is, as you can imagine, not alot of information readily available on this subject (and I'm sorry to say that Google Streetview has apparently not yet made it to any of their villages); even the Wikipedia page is shockingly underdeveloped. Most of the sources that I have found on them have either resources for missionaries, or written by ethnologists and linguists. The linguistic paper I have on them begins:
"Fear with a pinch of jealousy and contempt, based on a mutual lack of understanding or knowledge, could succinctly characterize the relationship between the coastal Creoles and the Amerindians of the Interior of Suriname."
Now, I ask you; why couldn't physics papers be written so dramatically?
There is, as you can imagine, not alot of information readily available on this subject (and I'm sorry to say that Google Streetview has apparently not yet made it to any of their villages); even the Wikipedia page is shockingly underdeveloped. Most of the sources that I have found on them have either resources for missionaries, or written by ethnologists and linguists. The linguistic paper I have on them begins:
"Fear with a pinch of jealousy and contempt, based on a mutual lack of understanding or knowledge, could succinctly characterize the relationship between the coastal Creoles and the Amerindians of the Interior of Suriname."
Now, I ask you; why couldn't physics papers be written so dramatically?