衣櫥 [yi chu] - wardrobe

Huzzah! Now on to page one.

魔 [mo] - magic; devil

Minus one point for changing the title.

女巫 [nü wu] - witch

獅子 [shi zi] - lion

That puts me approximately one third of the way through the title. This is going to be a long week.

I have three handy helpers on loan from the applied English department at a local university. I have a surprise for them tomorrow (shh -- don't tell them) to help them with their English: for each, a brand new copy of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in Clive Staples' own English. Of course, I wouldn't ask them to do something that I'm not ( Read more... )

It was among the stacks in the prodigious library of Saint Marcellus du Printemps University nestled in the quiet and forgotten community of North Pawasakett, Vermont that David uncovered records of a previously unknown theatre troupe that had faded into obscurity after last having been sighted roaming the countryside of the northern regions of the ( Read more... )

Somebody on the internet devised a music box that plays music off of a punch card twisted into a Möbius strip. Having watched the video repeatedly, I surmise that the contraption has some 15 pins, representing the diatonic tones of the A flat major scale in two full octaves. Based on that, here's what I would put on the Möbius strip:


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Kindly excuse my handwriting.

It clouded over and the rain began to fall at about noon on Thursday. It didn't pause until well into the evening when the first arm of the storm finally rotated away from the city. It was well enough to stand out in the open air hallways at the school and watch the rain cascade off of the terraced roofs, but when it was time to go I looked ( Read more... )

Young David sat listlessly at his desk hidden in the dense and endless jungle somewhere in Central America, idly listening to the rain coming down in torrents on the canopy overhead just as it did every day at this time just like clockwork. Bored with the half-hearted game of chess that he had been toying over these last three months by ( Read more... )