New Guinea war in ch. 3 ( Read more... )

So I got here yesterday after some hours spent driving to Maryhill and Fauxnhenge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlf5ucFanpY

The fake Stonehenge was corny; you can see the joins in the cement-block menhirs and trilithons. Maryhill was very weird: its vaunted Rodins are ( Read more... )

Home after a two-hour ride along seven or eight miles of rain into a 20mph headwind. The path of virtue is never easy!

Rereading Citizen of the Galaxy for the nth time and seeing things I didn't before. Thorby walks by the shipyards where the slaver ships are building, to meet the redhead who's part of Baslim's spy net reporting...on the slave ( Read more... )

Stuart said the other day, regarding my woodworking/metalworking/ceramics/gardening/preserving/cooking, that if civilization ever fell, he trusted that I would be able to restart it alone.

I was, of course, very flattered.


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"With typical Alexandrian aplomb, Origen also asserted that, after the Crucifixion, Christ continued His work of salvation throughout the planetary system, beginning with Venus."

NOW we know whence came Lewis' *Perelandra*.

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I was rereading (via Full Cast Audio) a favorite book and noticed a few things. The wormfaces were killed by the Mother Thing's mother-of-all-bombs while they were eating. This happened right after Kip and Jock were blue-lighted and Jock disappeared. Wormfaces eat people.

The bomb went off while the wormfaces were eating Jock.
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Lost Shakespeare?

We shall see. I want to see it on the stage.

Chapter Three ( Read more... )

On High Places ( Read more... )

This is fun.