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January 30, 2005
The island of Zanzibar?
Hm, it's off the coast of
East Africa.
Oh, it's near where "the
African Queen" took place! The mouth of the
Now I see. Rufiji river.
But see *what*? I feel like
I know where it is, because Not to mention the
I've got it connected up C.S. Forrester
with some movie? novel, but I
haven't read it yet. Most likely
I will though.
A mind full of trash. TRACERS
The Cold War has a
James Bond soundtrack. Astronomy a playground
for space opera heroes Tidal physics is
tied up with a
Siberia is the setting clumsy Larry Niven
of a Corto Maltese The Napoleonic wars, story.
comic. the game field for
Hornblower and Sharp. General Grant went on
Mary Queen of Scots to become President.
is played by Katherine Source: "Wild Wild West"
Hepburn.
Dinosaurs are those
things that were so
much smaller than Godzilla.
But I am what I am.
(As a great
man once said.)
You need to work
with this trash.
Use it as hooks to
hang some real information.
Look up the dates for Elizabeth's
reign, and tie them to Hepburn's
face if that's what it takes to fix
them in place.
For me Roman History begins with
Masterpiece Theater and Malcolm
McDowell, moves through a Sandman
comic and some Robert Graves novels,
(with dim memories of Shakespeare),
and on to (at last) some original
sources like Suetonius...
No scholar would be proud
of this background, but And you scholars --
isn't it better than didn't you walk a
nothing? similar path at first?
How else, What right
realistically, to sneer?
is a layman to
learn anything SELLERS_OF_THE_BEAST
of Roman
History? American schools
are certainly no
Working this way help.
requires skill
at doublethink. Though: one thing
Or multi-think. you have to give
American schools...
You have to be able
to hold many They don't spend
differing images in a lot of time
mind as a sketch of glorifying great
the truth. dictators throughout
history.
All the faces
of Claudius... BONY_DREAD
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