Grim necessity, like Elephant Island in the Shackleton Expedition

Mambo #1 From antiquity, we can with slight certainty trace the archtypal mambo to the Old Kingdom, from the walls of the tomb of Neptut II, the so called Man-bo Sapem, or “Mambo of the Harem”. However, some modern egyptologists (Franzerl, Crumb in his later years) maintain that this was a silent da...

This is a thread for writing short complete works of fiction, take a prompt leave a prompt style. I myself will be aiming at 250 words or less. Some starters: 1. The forbidden is buried under the manmade structure 2. A burst of light and then all fell silent 3. Animal wishes they could be another sp...

Still reading "historiography" but co-reading "Walden" now, which is pretty entertaining

Arizona?

My guess is that Califerne somehow derives from Caliphate, referring to the abbasids. The scope of the passage begins in Europe and expands outward and southward. The main muslims in Roland are the Saracens but the Abbasid caliphate existed around the time both of the events in the story and the wri...

Emergence perdurantism/endurantism In the interest of my new name and not just typing pithy one liners in this nice new place, I’m gonna edit and expand this. Emergence, to me, came from analog computing and pop science, but I liked the concept so much that I began to see it everywhere. Basically it...

Historiography by Breisach. I thought it was natural to survey the History of History before committing to anything specific. Always liked history. I downloaded a PDF of this book and waded in. Pretty cool once I started skimming less interesting parts. Edit: Finished. FWIW, psychohistory sounds ra...

I had a nice dream the other day. I fell asleep watching toobs on my tablet, some kind of creepy channel where the adolescent talks one octave lower than his normal speaking voice. I was laying prone on my couch. I wake up and look over the back of the couch towards our giant cheap picture of the Ei...

Historiography by Breisach. I thought it was natural to survey the History of History before committing to anything specific.