A Dignified Moocher As America’s First Emperor? | Dream-Writer’s Library
There's more to the dignified moocher than his military uniform, ostrich cane, and Kossuth hat.
How To Win Friends And Influence People | 22 | 2022 Centobibliennial Reading
"How? When? Where? The answer is: All the time, everywhere." - How To Win Friends And Influence People, pg. 96.
Deep Work, By Cal Newport | 21 | 2022 Centobibliennial Reading
"...The more you practice resisting such urges, the easier such resistance becomes." - Deep Work, pg. 167.
Book Of Five Rings, By Musashi Miyamoto | 17 | 2022 Centobibliennial Reading
"...With the virtue of strategy, I practice many arts and abilities--all things with no teacher." - Introduction.
Walt Disney, by Neal Gabler | 3 | 2022 Centobibliennial Reading
"Cultural historians would consider [the 1930s] the age of Mickey Mouse, both for the way the mouse seemed to confront the period's dislocations and agonies and for the way he seemed to suggest a remedy to them." - pg. 151
The Last Speaker, by K. David Anderson | Literature Discussion
"All of us benefit from maintaining the human knowledge base, and therefore we all benefit from a multitudinous Babel of tongues." - K. David Anderson, pg. 86
General System Theory, by Ludwig von Bertalanffy | Literature Discussion W/ Some Cornish Translation
"Reaching equilibrium means death and consequent decay." - General System Theory, pg. 191
The Devil’s Historian, by Amy S. Kaufman, et al | Literature Review
"Our view of the past reveals our understanding of the world, our highest hopes and darkest fears." - Location 252
The Interdisciplinarity of Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding is the one field where no changed major feels like "wasted time."
Theophoric Names In Conlanging
There is not a lot of discussion, either from David J. Peterson or Marc Rosenfelder, about the use...