Humans are a Story Telling Species

the nature of life, and the (retelling of) and the (conveying of information about) past events I watched on the news today that someone in the US killed other people, then killed themselves. It happened recently, so there is nothing more in the story; just that someone killed other people then killed themselves. The storyContinue reading “Humans are a Story Telling Species”

Start of Something Big

I have embarked on a quest, to create… “the Global & Connected Bards” I have a series of essays I started writing, that will establish the foundations of global and connected bardistry. (15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“praise”), and reinforced by Latin bardus, borrowed from Celtic. Cognate with Latin grātus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to sacrifice”).Continue reading “Start of Something Big”

An Ode to Ancient Times

Milattan önceki yıllardaki yazarları hayal ettiğimde, tahta bir masada, tek başına, sarı küçük bir mum ve katır kutur bir parşömen, ve mürekkep ve hokka, kalem… Neden hep böyle hissediyorum? Çok engin Boşluk Boş tarlalar, araziler Sessizlik Hayvanlar, otlayan sessiz hayvanlar Yıldızlı gece altında ahırlarda sessizce bekleyen hayvanlar It must have been “something else” to haveContinue reading “An Ode to Ancient Times”

Reading into the Far Octarine

Rincewind the wizard ( B. Mgc., Unseen University [failed] ) explains to Twoflower the tourist (a word which, Rincewind had decided, meant “idiot”), the laws that govern (their) (fictional) universe. The Law of Conservation of Reality; demands that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used. WhatContinue reading “Reading into the Far Octarine”

The Words which came out of the Color of Magic

Explanation for this blog post: I am re-reading The Color of Magic. It is my usual practice to get a .docx to write down the meanings of the words I don’t see often. I also occasionally write down what I think about, or what one particular word or passage made me think about. I hadContinue reading “The Words which came out of the Color of Magic”