"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
You might be familiar with the fact that in the original versions of chess — the Persian hatranj and the Indian chaturanga — the overpowered omnipotent Queen was respectively the ferz, the counsellor, and the mantri, the general. Go figure, you might think.
What you might be less familiar with is that originally all the queens we didn’t have in chess were poured into checkers.
It’s what we’re looking at today on my Patreon, as two of my main characters are playing this game back in 1522.
I have a profound loathing for Virginia Woolf’s writings. Not the woman, I think she was awesome. Her writing. It’s personal, and possibly shallow, and has mostly to do with my mother: she loved Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, and forced me to read it
This is possibly the best science fiction story I’ve read this year, and I’ve been reading Asimov. Oh. My. God. It’s the kind of book I won’t shut up about any time soon: I’ll go out in the street, and grab random people by the
Paul Shillcock posted something honest a few weeks ago, which is rarer than it sounds on LinkedIn. He admitted that he spends half his time explaining the terms appointing party and appointed party from ISO 19650, that almost nobody uses them (not the way they
I have a profound loathing for Virginia Woolf’s writings. Not the woman, I think she was awesome. Her writing. It’s personal, and possibly shallow, and has mostly to do with my mother: she loved Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, and forced me to read it
This is possibly the best science fiction story I’ve read this year, and I’ve been reading Asimov. Oh. My. God. It’s the kind of book I won’t shut up about any time soon: I’ll go out in the street, and grab random people by the
Paul Shillcock posted something honest a few weeks ago, which is rarer than it sounds on LinkedIn. He admitted that he spends half his time explaining the terms appointing party and appointed party from ISO 19650, that almost nobody uses them (not the way they
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