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class="small">on</span> <abbr class="date time published updated" title="2020-04-15T05:42:51-0500">April 15, 2020</abbr> <span class="post-comments comments"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/2020/04/spice-opera/#comments"><i class="fa fa-comment"></i> 6</a></span> </div> <section class="entry"> <p>I’ve blogged before (see <a href="https://aaeblog.com/2019/10/18/mr-sand-man-bring-me-a-dream-part-2/">here</a>, <a href="https://aaeblog.com/2019/12/09/parallel-universes/">here</a>, and <a href="https://aaeblog.com/2019/11/28/attack-of-the-cloned-scene/">here</a>) about the influence of the <em>Dune</em> series on <em>Star Wars</em>. But I’ve recently reread the entire <em>Dune</em> series (the ones by Frank Herbert, I mean, not all of the posthumous continuations, though I’ve read a couple of those also), and having now refreshed my memory of the two final books that I’d remembered the least well, namely <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Dune-Frank-Herbert/dp/0593098269/?tag=praxeologynet-20"><em>Heretics of Dune</em></a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chapterhouse-Dune-Frank-Herbert/dp/0593098277/?tag=praxeologynet-20"><em>Chapterhouse: Dune</em></a>, I see still more influences of the <em>Dune</em> series, not just on <em>Star Wars</em> but also on <em>Star Trek</em>, and in particular on the most recent Trek series, <em>Picard</em> (for which <strong>SPOILERS</strong> follow). (Also, while I previously noted Jabba’s similarity to the God Emperor, I’d now say he’s really closest to being a cross between the God Emperor and Baron Harkonnen.)</p> <p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/heretics-chapterhouse-dune.png" alt="" width="631" height="518" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16094" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/heretics-chapterhouse-dune.png 631w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/heretics-chapterhouse-dune-300x246.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px" /></p> <p>While the Bene Gesserit sisterhood is a major feature of all six original <em>Dune</em> novels, <em>Heretics</em> and <em>Chapterhouse</em> (henceforth <em>HoD/ChD</em>) focus on the Sisterhood both more closely and more sympathetically (though never uncritically) than do the earlier installments, and I suspect that the Bene Gesserit prohibition on personal emotional attachments, the pros and cons of which are central to the final two novels, was an influence on the similar Jedi prohibition in the <em>Star Wars</em> prequels. Yeah, I know, suspicion of attachment is a Buddhist thing (arguably <em>the</em> Buddhist thing), and Buddhism was always one of the influences on the concept of the Jedi; but it takes front and center in the prequel trilogy (which appeared after <em>HoD/ChD</em>) in a way it never did in the original trilogy (which appeared before<em>HoD/ChD</em>). </p> <p>In <em>HoD/ChD</em> we see Darwi Odrade, who is the closest thing the final two books have to a central protagonist, making a convincing case that the Bene Gesserit rejection of love represents a crucial failing of the order; but on the other hand, there is also something to be said for the old guard’s case that Lady Jessica’s decision to defy the sisterhood out of love for Duke Leto has led to catastrophe – first to a massively destructive civil war under Paul Atreides, and then to a millennia-long dictatorship under the God Emperor. One can see this conflict mirrored in the prequel trilogy, where Anakin’s love for Padme and fear of losing her as he lost his mother is what leads him to fall to the dark side and aid in the rise of the Empire, thus arguably vindicating the prohibition on love – except that without the prohibition he might have felt freer to share his worries with his Jedi mentors rather than turning to Palpatine for advice. (And the Jedi could have freed Shmi from slavery and set her up in a nice apartment on Coruscant if they were worried that her son’s concern for her welfare would lead him into darkness.)</p> <p><img decoding="async" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/anakin-eyes-300x158.gif" alt="" width="300" height="158" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-16075" /></p> <p><em>HoD/ChD</em> also feature a conflict between the Bene Gesserit and their evil counterparts, the Honored Matres; and while the Matres don’t follow the Sith Rule of Two, they do ascend to leadership by assassinating their predecessor. They also practice a form of mind control, they scorn any form of compassion, and when they grow angry their eyes turn orange – all like the Sith. </p> <p>(Promotion through assassination is of course also a Klingon thing – but one that was first established on <em>Next Generation</em>, which likewise came after <em>HoD/ChD</em>. Admittedly the idea of promotion through assassination is much older than any of these franchises, running back at least as far as</p> <blockquote><p>those trees in whose dim shadow<br /> the ghastly priest doth reign,<br /> the priest who slew the slayer<br /> and shall himself be slain</p></blockquote> <p>but the parallels are still suggestive.)</p> <p>The fact that <em>ChD</em> ends with the Bene Gesserit and Honored Matres being united under Murbella also prefigures one of two interpretations in <em>Star Wars</em> of what it means to bring balance to the Force – the interpretation, dominant in the tv series, where it is the light and the dark sides that need to be balanced, as opposed to the interpretation, dominant in the movies, that balance represents the triumph of light/balance over dark/imbalance. Moreover, members of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood are often referred to as “witches” while of course the second <em>Clone Wars</em> tv series has its own sisterhood of mystical warriors, the “Nightsisters,” or “Witches of Dathomir.”</p> <div id="attachment_16076" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-16076" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/dathomir-1024x435.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="435" class="size-large wp-image-16076" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/dathomir-1024x435.jpg 1024w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/dathomir-300x128.jpg 300w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/dathomir-768x326.jpg 768w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/dathomir.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><p id="caption-attachment-16076" class="wp-caption-text">The Witches of Dathomir</p></div> <p>As far as the recent sequel trilogy is concerned, while Palpatine’s reviving himself by transferring his consciousness into a cloned body is a callback to the 1990s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Empire"><em>Dark Empire</em> arc</a> in the comics, both were preceded by the use of the similar <em>ghola</em> concept in the <em>Dune</em> series. Also, Palpatine’s unsuccessful attempt to take over his granddaughter Rey’s body in <em>Rise of Skywalker</em> is prefigured in Baron Harkonnen’s largely successful attempt to take over his granddaughter Alia’s body in the second and third <em>Dune</em> books; and Rey’s being able to call on the powers of previous deceased Jedi echoes the Bene Gesserit’s use of “Other Memory.”</p> <p>Turning to <em>Star Trek: Picard</em>: we’re introduced to two female-led Romulan societies, one sympathetic (the Qowat Milat) and one not (the Zhat Vash), in a way that parallels the (mostly) good and evil warrior sisterhoods in <em>HoD/ChD</em> (though the <em>name</em> “Qowat Milat” is most likely a nod to yet another warrior sisterhood, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Milaje">Dora Milaje</a> in Marvel’s <em>Black Panther</em>). (The Qowat Milat is explicitly said to be all-female, though they do give the male Elnor a Qowat Milat upbringing, as several of the male protagonsts in the <em>Dune</em> series receive a Bene Gesserit upbringing. (The Witches of Dathomir had male protegés too.) Nothing is explicitly said about the gender balance of the Zhat Vash, but while they do have at least one male operative, all the initiates we see attending the Admonition are female, as far as I could tell.) The sensual, manipulative, ruthlessly violent, psychopathically unempathetic Narissa, the Zhat Vash operative we get to know best, also acts very much like one of Herbert’s Honored Matres. </p> <p>The Qowat Milat, by contrast, live by a rule of “absolute candor” – which is not (to put it mildly) a trait we would have associated with the Bene Gesserit after reading only the first four <em>Dune</em> books; but in <em>HoD/ChD</em>, the term “candor” is repeatedly and explicitly associated with the Bene Gesserit outlook (though the Bene Gesserit seem to have a somewhat more flexible understanding of this trait than do the Qowat Milat).</p> <div id="attachment_16077" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-16077" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bene-gesserit-1024x513.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="513" class="size-large wp-image-16077" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bene-gesserit-1024x513.jpg 1024w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bene-gesserit-300x150.jpg 300w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bene-gesserit-768x385.jpg 768w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bene-gesserit-1536x770.jpg 1536w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bene-gesserit.jpg 1784w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><p id="caption-attachment-16077" class="wp-caption-text">The Bene Gesserit</p></div> <div id="attachment_16079" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-16079" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/qowat-milat-1024x815.png" alt="" width="1024" height="815" class="size-large wp-image-16079" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/qowat-milat-1024x815.png 1024w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/qowat-milat-300x239.png 300w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/qowat-milat-768x611.png 768w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/qowat-milat-1536x1222.png 1536w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/qowat-milat.png 1538w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><p id="caption-attachment-16079" class="wp-caption-text">The Qowat Milat</p></div> <div id="attachment_16078" style="width: 800px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-16078" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/zhat-vash.png" alt="" width="790" height="461" class="size-full wp-image-16078" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/zhat-vash.png 790w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/zhat-vash-300x175.png 300w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/zhat-vash-768x448.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px" /><p id="caption-attachment-16078" class="wp-caption-text">The Zhat Vash</p></div> <p>Continuing the parallels, the Romulan hostility toward artificial intelligence parallels the Butlerian Jihad in the <em>Dune</em> series. The Admonition, in <em>Star Trek: Picard</em>, contains coded memories that Zhat Vash initiates access through a ritual that risks driving them insane, rather like the Spice Agony via which Bene Gesserit initiates access their ancestral memories, risking death or possession. </p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/picard-machine-portal-300x126.png" alt="" width="300" height="126" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-16088" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/picard-machine-portal-300x126.png 300w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/picard-machine-portal-1024x430.png 1024w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/picard-machine-portal-768x322.png 768w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/picard-machine-portal.png 1277w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p> <p>The revelation that the Zhat Vash in <em>Picard</em> are motivated by fear of invasion from a distant machine civilisation bent on destroying humanity seems to echo the fact that in <em>HoD/ChD</em> their counterpart, the Honored Matres, are fleeing from a mysterious Enemy beyond known space, which in the continuations by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson turns out to be a distant machine civilisation bent on destroying humanity (even though <em>ChD</em> suggests pretty strongly that Frank Herbert was planning to go in a different direction regarding the Enemy’s identity). </p> <p>Moreover, in <em>Picard</em> we learn that one can survive death by transferring one’s consciousness into an artificial body, a clone of oneself, called a <em>golem</em> – which is not how a <em>golem</em> works in Jewish folklore (the traditional <em>golem</em> had its own body and consciousness, both artificial and somewhat rough-hewn, but neither one a copy of any actual pre-existing person), but is rather more how a <em>ghola</em> works in the <em>Dune</em> novels. </p> <div id="attachment_16085" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-16085" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/golem-movie.jpg" alt="" width="970" height="647" class="size-full wp-image-16085" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/golem-movie.jpg 970w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/golem-movie-300x200.jpg 300w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/golem-movie-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px" /><p id="caption-attachment-16085" class="wp-caption-text">From the 1915 film <em>The Golem</em></p></div> <p>And Picard even says “Fear is the great destroyer,” which sounds a lot like the Bene Gesserit’s Litany Against Fear: “Fear is the mind-killer; fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.”</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/halleck-picard.png" alt="" width="509" height="179" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16090" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/halleck-picard.png 509w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/halleck-picard-300x106.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px" /></p> <p>There are other parallels between <em>Dune</em> and <em>Star Trek</em> where it’s unclear whether there was influence or, if so, in what direction. In the first four <em>Dune</em> novels, we know that Bene Gesserit initiates who’ve been through the Spice Agony have access to all the memories of their female ancestors. (Aside: as a <em>kwisatz haderach</em>, Paul is supposed to be unique in having access to the memories of his male ancestors as well, though he never makes much use of them; but Alia obviously has access to the memories of her male ancestors too, since otherwise she wouldn’t be at risk of possession by the Baron. Does this mean that a female <em>kwisatz haderach</em> is possible after all? It’s odd that this is never addressed.) But in <em>HoD/ChD</em>, we learn that the Bene Gesserit have <em>another</em> route of access to “Other Memory”; at the moment of death, one Bene Gesserit can telepathically transfer her fund of memories, both from her own life and from her stored lives, to another Bene Gesserit by touching foreheads, thus granting the recipient access to <em>non</em>-ancestral memories as well. </p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/spock-mccoy-katra.jpg" alt="" width="259" height="194" class="alignright size-full wp-image-16086" /></p> <p>This is obviously similar to how <em>katra</em> transfer works in <em>The Search for Spock</em>, which was released in June 1984 – though it’s arguably hinted at in 1982’s <em>Wrath of Khan</em>. <em>HoD</em> was released in April 1984 – too close, I think, for it to have either influenced or been influenced by <em>Search for Spock</em>. I can’t recall this ability being introduced prior to <em>HoD/ChD</em> – though it may be intended to fill a plot hole where, in <em>God Emperor</em> (IIRC, and I’m not sure I do), it’s implied that a Bene Gesserit initiate remembers the <em>deaths</em> of her predecessors, which she could hardly do if memories were transferred only at the moment of conception. Hmm, unclear.</p> <p>I also see some (very broad) parallels between the first <em>Dune</em> novel and Shakespeare’s <em>Hamlet</em>. Both start with the protagonist, a brilliant but moody young prince, losing his father to treachery; both end with a public duel in which the prince’s opponent cheats by using a poisoned blade – and where the villainous antagonist who has arranged the duel, and is now seated among the spectators, ends up getting killed as well. Both involve intrigue in sprawling castles with ample opportunities for eavesdropping, secret messages, and assassination. In both cases, the protagonist must hide (<em>Dune</em>) or dissimulate (<em>Hamlet</em>) until he is in a position to avenge his father’s death. Both Paul and Hamlet spend a lot of time brooding angstily over the roles in which destiny has cast them, though both act with great shrewdness and dispatch when the time comes. Both make crucial use of their fathers’ signet rings. And even the opening of David Lynch’s <em>Dune</em>, opening with the Atreides stronghold on a cliff above the violent surf of Caladan –</p> <p class="aligncenter"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YBkVySliUbo" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>– reminds me of the similar opening of Laurence Olivier’s <em>Hamlet</em>:</p> <p class="aligncenter"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wNP_2Omaciw?start=35&end=137" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>– or likewise that of Kozintsev:</p> <p class="aligncenter"><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/337079580" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Of course one obvious difference is that most of the action in <em>Dune</em> takes place far away from castles, out in the wilds of the desert, whereas the action of <em>Hamlet</em> all seems to take place within the claustrophobic hallways of Elsinore. But in fact Hamlet <em>does</em> see a fair bit of action away from Elsinore, though it all takes place offstage – his sea voyage to England, his switching the letters so as to send Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths, and his fight with, capture by, and subsequent befriending of the pirates (not entirely unlike Paul’s adventure with the Fremen).*</p> <p>And I can’t resist adding that Shakespeare gives Hamlet the line “Your worm is your only emperor.”</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/god-emperor-leto.png" alt="" width="960" height="414" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16080" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/god-emperor-leto.png 960w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/god-emperor-leto-300x129.png 300w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/god-emperor-leto-768x331.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></p> </section> <div class="fix"></div> <div class="post-more"> <hr /> </div> </article> <article class="post-16072 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-molinaric4ss"> <header> <h2 class="title entry-title"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/2020/04/molinari-review-i-2-on-kindle/" rel="bookmark" title="Molinari Review I.2 on Kindle"><e>Molinari Review</em> I.2 on Kindle</a></h2> </header> <div class="post-meta"><span class="small">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/author/administrator/" title="Posts by Roderick" rel="author">Roderick</a></span></span> <span class="small">on</span> <abbr class="date time published updated" title="2020-04-11T01:26:46-0500">April 11, 2020</abbr> <span class="post-comments comments"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/2020/04/molinari-review-i-2-on-kindle/#respond"><i class="fa fa-comment"></i> 0</a></span> </div> <section class="entry"> <p>The Fall 2019 issue of the <em>Molinari Review</em>, previously available in print, is now also <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086Z51T4V/?tag=praxeologynet-20">available on Kindle</a>.</p> <p>That link goes to Amazon US, but it should also be available on various other national iterations of Amazon.</p> <p>And for a reminder of the contents, see <a href="https://aaeblog.com/2020/01/02/molinari-review-i-2-what-lies-within/">here</a>.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MR-f19-cover.png" alt="" width="330" height="495" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15974" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MR-f19-cover.png 330w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MR-f19-cover-200x300.png 200w" sizes="(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px" /></p> </section> <div class="fix"></div> <div class="post-more"> <hr /> </div> </article> <article class="post-16049 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-lapsus-linguae tag-science-fiction"> <header> <h2 class="title entry-title"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/2020/04/lunar-lunacy/" rel="bookmark" title="Lunar Lunacy">Lunar Lunacy</a></h2> </header> <div class="post-meta"><span class="small">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/author/administrator/" title="Posts by Roderick" rel="author">Roderick</a></span></span> <span class="small">on</span> <abbr class="date time published updated" title="2020-04-08T00:05:29-0500">April 8, 2020</abbr> <span class="post-comments comments"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/2020/04/lunar-lunacy/#respond"><i class="fa fa-comment"></i> 0</a></span> </div> <section class="entry"> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/melies-lune-300x250.png" alt="" width="300" height="250" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-16054" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/melies-lune-300x250.png 300w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/melies-lune.png 441w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p> <p>I just finished reading <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Artemis-Novel-Andy-Weir/dp/0553448145/?tag=praxeologynet-20"><em>Artemis</em></a>, Andy Weir’s follow-up to his hit novel <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553418025/?tag=praxeologynet-20"><em>The Martian</em></a>. I generally enjoyed it (despite finding his prose choices occasionally painful). But I have one major gripe.</p> <p>You know that <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/INeverSaidItWasPoison">classic trope</a> where the villain gives themselves away by mentioning X, and the hero says “but I never said anything about X”? Well, it happens in <em>Artemis</em> – EXCEPT that the hero had in fact explicitly mentioned X to the villain two pages earlier.</p> <p>Somehow the author missed this. And all the editors and manuscript readers also missed this. WTF?</p> <p><strong><u>Addendum</u>:</strong></p> <p>OOPS. Mea culpa. The idiot is me. I reread the passage. The hero is referring to things the villain said just BEFORE the hero mentioned X. I misread the hero’s “But I hadn’t mentioned X” as “But I haven’t mentioned X.” I shall do penance.</p> </section> <div class="fix"></div> <div class="post-more"> <hr /> </div> </article> <article class="post-16039 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header> <h2 class="title entry-title"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/2020/02/raider/" rel="bookmark" title="Raider">Raider</a></h2> </header> <div class="post-meta"><span class="small">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/author/administrator/" title="Posts by Roderick" rel="author">Roderick</a></span></span> <span class="small">on</span> <abbr class="date time published updated" title="2020-02-29T23:19:53-0500">February 29, 2020</abbr> <span class="post-comments comments"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/2020/02/raider/#respond"><i class="fa fa-comment"></i> 0</a></span> </div> <section class="entry"> <p><strong>Raider</strong></p> <p>so about the idol</p> <p>we’d been slogging through that jungle for weeks<br /> gasping through air that was like hot sludge<br /> with birds and bugs and monkeys heckling us<br /> you know they never let up<br /> no matter how many we shot</p> <p>and then finally<br /> there by the river’s edge was the goddamn temple<br /> yeah ooh dark and mysterious<br /> but pictures don’t convey the smell<br /> like something died and burst open<br /> these days they’d want to make it a world heritage site<br /> but good luck dealing with the smell<br /> your tourist bus wouldn’t get within half a mile </p> <p>but you wanted to know about the idol</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/raider-idol-300x183.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="183" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-16041" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/raider-idol-300x183.jpg 300w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/raider-idol.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p> <p>so yes okay I destroyed the whole temple to get the idol<br /> just like the movie tells it<br /> we’d never be allowed to do it nowadays<br /> so-called archeologists bowing to a bunch of rules<br /> best practices written up by pencil necks in offices<br /> jesus fuck we’re archeologists<br /> we’re pirates sailing the seas of history<br /> we don’t follow rules or best fucking practices<br /> archeology is dead these days<br /> let me have another drink will you</p> <p>but anyway I never got the idol<br /> the movie got that wrong<br /> it went down with the collapsing temple<br /> and I crawled out half alive<br /> and slogged my way empty-handed back through the jungle<br /> till I got to some town in the ass end of nowhere<br /> where I could stagger into a cheap whorehouse<br /> for a week long drunk<br /> or maybe it was a month<br /> how the hell should I remember<br /> when the days all run together<br /> when there’s strong liquor<br /> speaking of which I could sure use another<br /> yeah that hits the spot</p> <p>the rival archeologist?<br /> poor bastard, I picked his name at random<br /> out of a back issue of the AJA<br /> someone to blame for the missing idol<br /> I even tied him to the Krauts<br /> amazing the shit people will believe<br /> when war makes them paranoid crazy</p> <p>but I guess you people are having your doubts now<br /> well maybe you’re right<br /> maybe I stumbled into that whorehouse with the idol in my pack<br /> and it was stolen while I lay there like a dead man<br /> or maybe I sold it for more booze<br /> that thing would have paid for a lifelong drunk<br /> which some would say is what I’m on</p> <p>or maybe I kept it<br /> in a secret place<br /> that I visit whenever I can get away<br /> to dream about being a pirate on the seas of history<br /> a shining golden center to my otherwise shitty life</p> <p>or maybe I’m just shitting you<br /> to keep the drinks coming</p> </section> <div class="fix"></div> <div class="post-more"> <hr /> </div> </article> <article class="post-16032 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-democracy tag-molinaric4ss tag-personal"> <header> <h2 class="title entry-title"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/2020/02/laugh-about-it-shout-about-it-when-youve-got-to-choose/" rel="bookmark" title="Laugh About It, Shout About It When You’ve Got to Choose">Laugh About It, Shout About It When You’ve Got to Choose</a></h2> </header> <div class="post-meta"><span class="small">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/author/administrator/" title="Posts by Roderick" rel="author">Roderick</a></span></span> <span class="small">on</span> <abbr class="date time published updated" title="2020-02-15T23:48:37-0500">February 15, 2020</abbr> <span class="post-comments comments"><a href="https://aaeblog.com/2020/02/laugh-about-it-shout-about-it-when-youve-got-to-choose/#comments"><i class="fa fa-comment"></i> 3</a></span> </div> <section class="entry"> <p>I’m going to be one of the moderators for the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidates’ debate on Friday, February 28th, in conjunction with the Alabama state LP’s 2020 convention in Birmingham AL; details <a href="https://lpalabama.org/event/2020-lp-alabama-state-convention-2020-02-28/">here</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/485103585594759/">here</a>.</p> <p>I’ll also be tabling there for Molinari/C4SS on Saturday, February 29th. </p> <p>More info to follow!</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bham-lp-site2020.png" alt="" width="960" height="459" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16033" srcset="https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bham-lp-site2020.png 960w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bham-lp-site2020-300x143.png 300w, https://aaeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bham-lp-site2020-768x367.png 768w" 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