That p45 meme again

[sollersuk]

Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012."The Southwick palace, although on a smaller scale, mirrored the architectural form of Fishbourne as, apparently, did the building complex of Pullborough

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[atheneglaukopis]

Ha, mine was the from Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. "In Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad treated the pagans, Jews, and Christians he encountered differently."

Which, by the way, you recommended to me and is next on my reading list. I just read another of your recommendations, The Transformation of the Roman World. A few pages in I knew exactly what you meant when you said it opened your eyes to just how Romanized the Germanic kings were. Very intriguing book.

[sollersuk]

Do you have a Dreamwidth account? If so I can give you access to information on what I've done with all that research.

[atheneglaukopis]

Yes, Dreamwidth account is mildred_of_midgard. I know it has to be confusing for me to have such unrelated names on LJ and DW, but I'm not active on LJ anymore except to comment on posts that don't appear in my DW account. (Where did the preview function go on LJ comments, btw? I need to check my html

[sollersuk]

Ah, that's fine - I simply hadn't made the connection. So of course you have access to what I'm doing with it all - I'm just "sollers" there!

I'll come back to you later on the Ancient Near East as my knowledge is patchy but in some respects fairly deep.

[atheneglaukopis]

Ah, that's what you meant. I thought perhaps you had secret locked posts full of notes that you weren't sharing with everyone. Yeah, I'm really enjoying reading about your story. Frequently your comments remind me of my own, like about villains, mutual prejudices, and sending messages with Western Union!

It's very sensible of you to use easily recognizable names on both; I just wanted a fresh start on blogging and didn't want to be automatically found by everyone who read my LJ, which I realize is responsible for a certain amount of frustration.

[sollersuk]

What I've got on Dreamwidth is what I'd wanted on lj but it appears to belong to a sock puppet.

I took it from my Late Antiquity reading, crossed with "Blackadder". I don't know if you're acquainted with it but one character often says "I have a cunning plan", which is usually totally impractical when it's not just plain stupid.

I then noticed Vegetius' recurrent use of "Sollertia est", and that a very good rendering of it would be "It is a cunning plan". I toyed with using "sollertia" but at the time I wasn't letting on online that I was female so I went for the non-committal third declension noun, which works out as "the person with the cunning plan".