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The lead article for this one is a first-hand account of what it's like to live through a coup. While the credit is in an odd place, the author seems to be Barima Opong-Owusu of Ghana. I assume Opong-Owusus was a TSR employee at the time,* or else he probably wdn't have been contributing to the employee newsletter. But what role he played in the company I have no idea. Not, I suspect, in the R&D/rpg department, or else I'd have expected to have come across the name at some point, even though it was long before my time.</p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhID-wW_Oy9viOtYtvn9uiZWHPsFK3gdMS7f4Hp4jD0mZT8qQSDgTwRbcM9Bp-oimoZhSGjrVn0dz-vcLN_TBhB6zrJE6IRzSoYHyz6vPJD6LP71PvFNsW_wlb_qN8hyphenhyphenuZWaPUhVaoj6Bih/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1169" data-original-width="848" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhID-wW_Oy9viOtYtvn9uiZWHPsFK3gdMS7f4Hp4jD0mZT8qQSDgTwRbcM9Bp-oimoZhSGjrVn0dz-vcLN_TBhB6zrJE6IRzSoYHyz6vPJD6LP71PvFNsW_wlb_qN8hyphenhyphenuZWaPUhVaoj6Bih/" width="174" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7G0O_Yu-GeBoTHi5_gWy88T4rWJ7HxROtOiCzBbhSlPpWbcPSitb-bmfW5HJUnQoISIlpORJNJShSPVHxgy4gX469B1Pfy0tV-LaaI2N7_yJO7M8ShjK6airi23FnwoaShQ0fXwr_67SR/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1139" data-original-width="850" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7G0O_Yu-GeBoTHi5_gWy88T4rWJ7HxROtOiCzBbhSlPpWbcPSitb-bmfW5HJUnQoISIlpORJNJShSPVHxgy4gX469B1Pfy0tV-LaaI2N7_yJO7M8ShjK6airi23FnwoaShQ0fXwr_67SR/" width="178" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><p></p><p>What surprises me most, given how lily-white a company TSR as I knew it was, that a decade earlier there had been not one but two people of color on staff.</p><p>--John R.</p><p>*this is suggested by his statement that he wrote up the piece at the request of Jeff Perren</p><p><br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/is-this-barima-opong-owusu.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/is-this-barima-opong-owusu.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-31T16:36:00-08:00'>4:36 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/5107915762877238620' onclick=''> 1 comment: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=5107915762877238620&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, December 30, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='2239062544101975016' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='3481859709252374072' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='3481859709252374072'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/who-was-kwesi-nduom.html'>Who Was Kwesi Nduom?</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-3481859709252374072' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p>So, here's a query for those who remember TSR's Lake Geneva days:</p><p><b>Who was Kwesi Nduom? </b></p><p>All I know is that (1) he was from Ghana and (2) he worked for TSR in 1982.</p><p>Is this the same Paa Kwesi Nduom who ran for president of Ghana in 2008?</p><p>--John R.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/who-was-kwesi-nduom.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/who-was-kwesi-nduom.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-30T13:24:00-08:00'>1:24 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/3481859709252374072' onclick=''> 1 comment: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=3481859709252374072&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCduATgtiFb6l53uLwhwSu9HoawrMX8tu6JcMWJKghYiSUYu0pvMu_26m8H5SjidEI3s4FvU4A3fkrL-ZaPuGY-tuNKc_l8DqY5oD-PyYhW7bryGwZov7EWhi0JkmVk5i7Unzyh1DXBgqy/w292-h400/Random+Events+%2528June+1981%2529.jpeg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='2239062544101975016' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='4341666585071143169' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='4341666585071143169'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/random-events-old-tsr-newsletter.html'>Random Events (old TSR newsletter)</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-4341666585071143169' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p> So, in a discussion Monday night we were talking about the timing of release of various early (mid-seventies) rpgs --that is, the sequence of events of which specific game or game product came out. The RPG Timeline on Wikipedia was surprisingly helpful but of course incomplete.  </p><p>In the course of the discussion I was reminded of something from the early eighties--after the period we were discussing but still before my time: the TSR staff newsletter, <b>RANDOM EVENTS</b>. </p><p> I had recently unearthed my file of an incomplete but substantial run that I have courtesy of Brian Thaldorp, who presided over the Mail Order Hobby Shop (located between the main part of the TSR building and the warehouse). I don't think Brian gets mentioned much in histories of TSR, but he went way back and was happy to reminisce sometimes about personalities from the past. And at one point, since I was (and am) interested in things like that, he loaned me the Hobby Shop's run of this interesting bit of ephemera, which I photocopied before returning the originals to him; it's this set of photocopies I've relocated.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCduATgtiFb6l53uLwhwSu9HoawrMX8tu6JcMWJKghYiSUYu0pvMu_26m8H5SjidEI3s4FvU4A3fkrL-ZaPuGY-tuNKc_l8DqY5oD-PyYhW7bryGwZov7EWhi0JkmVk5i7Unzyh1DXBgqy/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1169" data-original-width="850" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCduATgtiFb6l53uLwhwSu9HoawrMX8tu6JcMWJKghYiSUYu0pvMu_26m8H5SjidEI3s4FvU4A3fkrL-ZaPuGY-tuNKc_l8DqY5oD-PyYhW7bryGwZov7EWhi0JkmVk5i7Unzyh1DXBgqy/w292-h400/Random+Events+%2528June+1981%2529.jpeg" width="292" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>This particular issue is fairly typical. Only four pages long, it features an account of the recent TSR picnic, as well as some gossip about names expectant TSR parents had picked out for their news sons and daughters. </p><p>Inside is a two-page spread giving the current Org chart (unfortunately without giving the names of the people who filled all those little boxes).</p><p>The last page lists local and area businesses who offer a discount to TSR staff.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like any newsletter, RANDOM EVENTS was hungry for copy, and so far as contributors went the barrier for entry is disarmingly low:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"If you can put a subject and a verb between a capital and a period, </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Random Events wants to hear from you"</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>--John R.</p><p>--current reading: ADVENTURES OF M. DE MAILLY by David Lindsay, TAM LIN by Pamela Dean, and THE WORLD OF CRITICAL ROLE: THE HISTORY BEHIND THE EPIC FANTASY by Liz Marsham</p><p>--today's music: THE ARCHIES GREATEST HITS, the most Mr. Bubbly of all bubblegum rock.</p><p><br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/random-events-old-tsr-newsletter.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/random-events-old-tsr-newsletter.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-30T13:13:00-08:00'>1:13 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/4341666585071143169' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=4341666585071143169&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, December 28, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_uXr4KvDTmMfxSl_cHFidlJblF04F2XhOARop9pdZ6lmMa3ujVN4k6-mAz5C13zpbGX1oMCvVtuJG327WYAcO2OrDpye-DicEyXS4VTKrgH_jwngeh-nGBtO243WR1OED7pCOOH8gO9E/w272-h400/Peter+Max+front+cover.jpeg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='2239062544101975016' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='4997838046617485967' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='4997838046617485967'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/peter-maxs-paper-airplane-book.html'>Peter Max's Paper Airplane Book</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-4997838046617485967' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p>So, years ago my cousin Sam and I discovered the work of Peter Max. He's best known for his work on the Beatles' YELLOW SUBMARINE, but what we liked best was his iconic PETER MAX's PAPER AIRPLANE BOOK. I have vague memories of buying this little book at the Quick-Sack, our local 7/11, probably not too long after it came out in 1971. </p><p>The fun thing about this book was that each page is a paper airplane. You're supposed to pull out the page, fold it as shown, and voila! Paper airplane. There probably aren't too many intact copies, since it was made to be perishable, but I came across one this Christmas and sent it along to my cousin in memory of days gone by.</p><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_uXr4KvDTmMfxSl_cHFidlJblF04F2XhOARop9pdZ6lmMa3ujVN4k6-mAz5C13zpbGX1oMCvVtuJG327WYAcO2OrDpye-DicEyXS4VTKrgH_jwngeh-nGBtO243WR1OED7pCOOH8gO9E/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1059" data-original-width="724" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_uXr4KvDTmMfxSl_cHFidlJblF04F2XhOARop9pdZ6lmMa3ujVN4k6-mAz5C13zpbGX1oMCvVtuJG327WYAcO2OrDpye-DicEyXS4VTKrgH_jwngeh-nGBtO243WR1OED7pCOOH8gO9E/w272-h400/Peter+Max+front+cover.jpeg" width="272" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB8L310v4CiYFtxWcaErDmG9MDklURa1Ea0zWcXRkIPn7cgObhxi9A8YdbpMeNIGNJUdeFs8MKh2LDA_k5BCLJQSVBvdc9m-SXTAWByO99OMW33K0seH1AA1EiBKFHjgK9UK9u-OEGvjHM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1059" data-original-width="662" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB8L310v4CiYFtxWcaErDmG9MDklURa1Ea0zWcXRkIPn7cgObhxi9A8YdbpMeNIGNJUdeFs8MKh2LDA_k5BCLJQSVBvdc9m-SXTAWByO99OMW33K0seH1AA1EiBKFHjgK9UK9u-OEGvjHM/w250-h400/Peter+Max+back+cover.jpeg" width="250" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>--John R. </p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/peter-maxs-paper-airplane-book.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/peter-maxs-paper-airplane-book.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-28T21:28:00-08:00'>9:28 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/4997838046617485967' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=4997838046617485967&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, December 25, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='2239062544101975016' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='3172079022054463750' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='3172079022054463750'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/39-d-best-year-ever.html'>39% (D&D's Best Year Ever)</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-3172079022054463750' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p> So, one of the most unexpected but welcome bits of news I came across at the end of this year came in a piece about how well D&D is doing. The game is not just surviving but thriving --in fact so much so that Hasbro announced that 2019, the most recent year for which they have a complete record, was <b>D&D's best year ever:</b></p><p><a href="https://screenrant.com/dungeons-dragons-best-year-sales-ever-wizards-coast/">https://screenrant.com/dungeons-dragons-best-year-sales-ever-wizards-coast/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What started as an odd hobby that scared televangelists and censor-ready scapegoaters grew into something as accepted as having a poker night or weekly bowling: all it took is for the kids who loved the game to grow into adults.*</p><p>The best news within this good news comes in one of the pie-charts embedded in the article. The first breaks down D&D gamers by age group:</p><p>ages 8 to 12: 12%</p><p>ages 13 to 17: 13%</p><p>ages 18 to 24: 15%</p><p>ages 25 to 29: 15%</p><p>ages 30 to 34: 19%</p><p>ages 35 to 39: 15%</p><p>ages 40 to 45: 11%</p><p>--although I must note dismay at finding I'm too old to even rank an age category like "and up".</p><p>It wd be interesting to compare these percentages with the results of that old DRAGON magazine survey back in the early/mid nineties.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second comes in the second chart, which breaks down gamers by gender:</p><p>male: 61%</p><p><b>female: 39%</b></p><p> other: 1%</p><p>--there have always been women who played the game, but their numbers were few in the early days. Even in the nineties I'd estimate it at about 15%. It's been a long time coming, but for that number to now be hovering around 40% shows that, while slow, real progress can come over time.</p><p>--John R.</p><p>reading: 'The Search for the Gnome Cache' by Garrison Ernst (Gary Gygax)</p><p>music: listening to George Harrison's 'What Is Life'; saw the video for the first time tonight.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Barnes & Noble weekly newsletter of December 20th 2020 features as its lead item an e-book about the livestreaming group CRITICAL ROLE:</p><p><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-world-of-critical-role-liz-marsham/1136585412?ean=9781984858320&dpid=tds3rjqdu&mi_ecmp=ab2ce5c5-f5f4-4ec6-ad42-9eb0e3061a7f&sourceId=L000032459&sid=OOC&st=EML&2sid=201220_FF_OOC_FANDOMS&mi_u=757c3caf-2d30-504b-8eb6-00b9635123cb&hConversionEventId=AQEAAZQF2gAmdjYwMDAwMDE3Ni03ZmVhLWNlMjctODViYi1kZjZlOTY2Mzk4MTjaACRhYjJjZTVjNS1mNWY0LTRlYzYtMDAwMC0wMjFlZjNhMGJjY2XaACQwY2Q5YmE3Ny0yNDBhLTQ3NzEtYWFhNS0xZDVlMjk0YmRjMWY7CjCvJo5wdZuWdIEuAnpxgetxW2A-qcqCAzOyIICqnA">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-world-of-critical-role-liz-marsham/1136585412?ean=9781984858320&dpid=tds3rjqdu&mi_ecmp=ab2ce5c5-f5f4-4ec6-ad42-9eb0e3061a7f&sourceId=L000032459&sid=OOC&st=EML&2sid=201220_FF_OOC_FANDOMS&mi_u=757c3caf-2d30-504b-8eb6-00b9635123cb&hConversionEventId=AQEAAZQF2gAmdjYwMDAwMDE3Ni03ZmVhLWNlMjctODViYi1kZjZlOTY2Mzk4MTjaACRhYjJjZTVjNS1mNWY0LTRlYzYtMDAwMC0wMjFlZjNhMGJjY2XaACQwY2Q5YmE3Ny0yNDBhLTQ3NzEtYWFhNS0xZDVlMjk0YmRjMWY7CjCvJo5wdZuWdIEuAnpxgetxW2A-qcqCAzOyIICqnA</a></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/39-d-best-year-ever.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/39-d-best-year-ever.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-25T20:38:00-08:00'>8:38 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/3172079022054463750' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=3172079022054463750&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Tuesday, December 22, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='2239062544101975016' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='8326206993376150895' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='8326206993376150895'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-d-movie.html'>The D&D Movie</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-8326206993376150895' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p> So, there was a time when fans spoke of good, bad, and Sci-Fi channel bad. </p><p>And within our own niche of fantasy and science fiction there was good, bad, and D&D movie bad.*</p><p>But now the powers that be are thinking of giving the whole D&D thing another try:</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/17/new-dungeons-dragons-movie-chris-pine-repeat-lord-of-the-rings-magic?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR2EmEbPveuPrJlMaiKOjdX-NZSXsuqXBqKxPggyy5L_INhzcy">https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/17/new-dungeons-dragons-movie-chris-pine-repeat-lord-of-the-rings-magic?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR2EmEbPveuPrJlMaiKOjdX-NZSXsuqXBqKxPggyy5L_INhzcy</a></p><p>I admit I shuddered a bit at the reference that the story would  </p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;"><b>"take a subversive approach to the game".</b></span></p><p>This cd mean a witty, ironic take on a typical party of PCs on a typical adventure. Making a mock, as it were. Laughing with us, not at us.</p><p>Or it cd mean throwing together a stream of random jokes and pratfalls, with no clue what makes this strange game so appealing to so many.  Laughing at us, rather than with us.</p><p>We shd soon know: filming is supposed to take place in the first quarter of 2021. Which wd start a little over a week from now.</p><p>I admit I'm curious over one detail: the choice of Belfast as the place to film this. Too modern a city, I wd have thought: not medieval enough.</p><p>--John R.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;">*The writer of the Guardian article puts it well when he sums up the earlier efforts with  "some of you may recall in regret the awful Jeremy Irons movie from 2000, with its two lamentable sequels".</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-d-movie.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-d-movie.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-22T18:51:00-08:00'>6:51 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/8326206993376150895' onclick=''> 2 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=8326206993376150895&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, December 17, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='2239062544101975016' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='2200283662544260945' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='2200283662544260945'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-note-on-dambervilles.html'>A Note on d'Ambervilles</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-2200283662544260945' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p>So, in <b>X2. CASTLE AMBER</b> Tom Moldvay includes a brief note on the relationship between this adventure and Clark Ashton Smith's Averoigne stories that, while true, has proved slightly misleading:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>Note:</b> The Amber family is <i>not</i> one of Clark Ashton Smith's</span></p><p><span style="color: #ffa400;">creations and does not appear in any Averoigne stories. Their</span></p><p><span style="color: #ffa400;">origin has been traced to Averoigne to aid the continuity of the</span></p><p><span style="color: #ffa400;">module and to ease transition in and out of Averoigne in the course</span></p><p><span style="color: #ffa400;">of the adventure</span></p><p style="text-align: right;">[p.3, last full paragraph in column one]</p><p><br /></p><p>It's true that the Amberville line is Moldvay's addition, but the name is one of C.A.S.'s devising, bestowed by him on <b>Francis Amberville</b>, a painter who is the hapless protagonist of "Genius Loci", a modern day story published in 1933 in WEIRD TALES.*</p><p>So the name is authentically Smith's, while the family is Moldvay's.</p><p>--JDR</p><p>*and later title story for Smith's 1948 Arkham House collection <b>GENIUS LOCI and other tales</b>.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-note-on-dambervilles.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-note-on-dambervilles.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-17T19:21:00-08:00'>7:21 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/2200283662544260945' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=2200283662544260945&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Tuesday, December 15, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='2239062544101975016' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='5927440191212716874' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='5927440191212716874'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/x2-castle-amber-revisited.html'>X2. CASTLE AMBER Revisited</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-5927440191212716874' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p> So, for my birthday this year I got myself a copy of the new Goodman Games edition of <b>X2. CASTLE AMBER (Chateau d'Ambreville)</b>. This 270 page hardcover reprints in facsimile the famed Moldvay adventure from 1981 (all thirty-two pages of it), then adapts it to 5th edition rules. I'm glad to see a classic return in a form likely to appeal to the current generation of gamers. And it was nice to get a little call-out for my work on the 1995 remake, MARK OF AMBER. Michael Curtis, the adaptor, ends his Author's Introduction with a paragraph praising the late great Tom Moldvay, then follows with another that reads </p><p><span style="color: #ffa400;">"I'd also like to express my thanks to Aaron Allston, Jeff Grubb, and John D. Rateliff, whose <i>Mark of Amber</i> adventure proved inspirational when expanding upon the original <i>Castle Amber</i>. You three had already ventured where I intended to tread and blazing the trail made it easier for me to follow in your wake."</span></p><p>I see that they've also released an update of B1/B2 and am curious whether it draws any upon my work in RETURN TO THE KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS. I suspect not. It'd be nice if someone finally went in after all these years and keyed B1.  </p><p>In any case, it's nice to sit down and immerse myself in the enjoyable combination of Smith (source material) and Moldvay (creating an adventure from said material).</p><p>--JDR</p><p>--current reading; THE BOOK OF ANDRE NORTON (collection of short stories)</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/x2-castle-amber-revisited.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/x2-castle-amber-revisited.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-15T20:40:00-08:00'>8:40 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/5927440191212716874' onclick=''> 2 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=5927440191212716874&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/Averoigne' rel='tag'>Averoigne</a>, <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/Clark%20Ashton%20Smith' rel='tag'>Clark Ashton Smith</a>, <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/d%27Ambreville' rel='tag'>d'Ambreville</a>, <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/D%26D.' rel='tag'>D&D.</a>, <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/MARK%20OF%20AMBER' rel='tag'>MARK OF AMBER</a>, <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/X2.%20Castle%20Amber' rel='tag'>X2. Castle Amber</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, December 11, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhcn_Jo_zg4zdgJaIxTzSvC3uq6BwTaOggTWtJTRlCmfBU6jAKTYI7FoX7vRtNcGZ19qRH49nLiu-2ce1xIXK1wg3o3Iuoo79wgdUnKSlhlZM-nih99IVv5e-wUPda47YK0uIz-a6SCCy/w300-h400/IMG_2961.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='2239062544101975016' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='6150894699286622331' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='6150894699286622331'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-cat-report-w1211-20-yellow-kittens.html'>The Cat Report (W.12/11-20) --Yellow Kittens</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-6150894699286622331' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhcn_Jo_zg4zdgJaIxTzSvC3uq6BwTaOggTWtJTRlCmfBU6jAKTYI7FoX7vRtNcGZ19qRH49nLiu-2ce1xIXK1wg3o3Iuoo79wgdUnKSlhlZM-nih99IVv5e-wUPda47YK0uIz-a6SCCy/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhcn_Jo_zg4zdgJaIxTzSvC3uq6BwTaOggTWtJTRlCmfBU6jAKTYI7FoX7vRtNcGZ19qRH49nLiu-2ce1xIXK1wg3o3Iuoo79wgdUnKSlhlZM-nih99IVv5e-wUPda47YK0uIz-a6SCCy/w300-h400/IMG_2961.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p> <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I missed the message about little Gibbs’ adoption, which gave me an anxious moment at one point when I was trying to add up all the cats scattered around the room and coming up one kitten short. Luckily all was well.</span></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">The Yellow Kittens</b> definitely dominate the room. Their mother (<b class="">ZOLA</b>) seemed overwhelmed by their energy so I gave her the big cage to herself. The three kittens share a four-cage stretch all along the bottom row. </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The two quiet cats, Mr. William and Manicotti, didn’t come out but loved having attention inside their cages.<b class=""> WILLIAM</b> just melts when you pet him, rubbing this face against yours and purring up a storm. <b class="">MANICOTTI</b> is a little more reserved but shd warm up as he gets used to the room. <b>ZOLA</b>, who's a tiny thing herself (only a year or so old) also loves attention but can’t compete with the kittens when it comes to games, withdrawing from their boisterousness.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The kittens are adorable. They don’t like being petted and are alarmed at the idea of being picked up, but they’re well-socialized and don’t swat or nip. They love games and play them with whole-hearted enthusiasm as only kittens can. One of the kitten took his favorite toy (the bug on a string on a stick) and dragged it off to his lair (wherever that lair was at the time. They all loved the laser pointer and the string game, but bug-on-a-string-on-a-stick was by far their favorite. And it was good to see them get more accepting of some petting just within a single shift; shdn’t be long before they’re fine with it.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Mr. William, by the way, was very happy with the string game, but you have to keep an eye on him and see that he doesn’t try to eat the string, which wd do him a world of no good inside.  He’s really too big for the cage set-up we have him in now (when he stands up the little karenda (sp?) in his cage gets lifted off the cage floor). I offered him a cat-boat bed instead but he seemed to prefer the original set-up, so I defaulted back to that in the end.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I wdn’t be surprised if this whole lot of cats don’t find new homes within a week. Glad that I had a chance to meet them.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">—John R.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-cat-report-w1211-20-yellow-kittens.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-cat-report-w1211-20-yellow-kittens.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-11T17:54:00-08:00'>5:54 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/6150894699286622331' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=6150894699286622331&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/Cats' rel='tag'>Cats</a>, <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Cat%20Room' rel='tag'>The Cat Room</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, December 10, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='2239062544101975016' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='774785354885416597' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='774785354885416597'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/david-lindsay-edinburgh-event.html'>David Lindsay (Edinburgh Event)</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-774785354885416597' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p>So, I spent my birthday attending an online conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh, celebrating the work of David Lindsay on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the publication of his best-known book, A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS. </p><p>There were papers and presentations on ARCTURUS, on his lesser known works, and on film and instrumental adaptations (I liked the piano/cello piece). The talk I got the most out of was Doug Anderson's, full of information cogently presented. And it was nice to see the tribute to J. B. Pick, who more or less invented Lindsay criticism. There was also a thoughtful inquiry into why Lindsay is increasingly being categorized as a Scottish writer rather than English. All in all, the standard of presentations was good. One or two pieces seemed to me to fall short of the mark, but to be fair this might have been fuzziness on my part due to time-zone issues.*</p><p>Those issues were the inevitable result of my attending (via zoom) an event that was taking place <b>eight time zones away.</b> Thus I had to get up at four a.m. to be ready for the event's start at 1 pm their time (five a.m. my time). Then it ran all the way to six p.m. their time (ten a.m. my time). Luckily I had a thermos full of tea (Yunnan) to see me through.</p><p>There were I think about twenty-five people in attendance -- not bad, considering that Lindsay has never been a popular author, being somewhat of an acquired taste. Here's a list of the papers, presenters, and sequence: </p><p> </p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">A Voyage to Arcturus</span></i></b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> and Beyond: David Lindsay’s Visionary Imagination: Wed December 9, 2020</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">SCHEDULE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">1pm: Introduction: Se谩n Martin, Louise Milne, Steven Sutcliffe</span></u><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Session One, 1.10-2.20pm: <i>A Voyage to Arcturus</i> (1920) One Hundred Years Later<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Chair: Se谩n Martin</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Talk 1/1.10-1.30: Dr J D McClure – ‘</span><i><span lang="EN-GB">Arcturus </span></i><span lang="EN-GB">and After’</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Talk 2/1.30-1.50: Dr Louise Milne – ‘Early Twentieth Century Dream Cultures as context for <i>Arcturus</i>’</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Talk 3/1.50-2.10: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Murray Ewing – </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">‘</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #201f1e;">The Cultural Influence of <i>A Voyage to Arcturus’</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">2.10-2.20: Questions</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><br /><u>Session Two, 2.20-3.30pm: After <i>Arcturus</i>: From <i>The Haunted Woman</i> to <i>The Witch</i><o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Chair: Louise Milne</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Talk 4/2.20-2.40:  Dr Steven Sutcliffe – ‘The Struggle to Remember in <i>The</i> <i>Haunted Woman </i>and<i> The Violet Apple</i>’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Talk 5/2.40-3.00: Dr Andrew Radford – </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">‘</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #201f1e;">Devil's Tor: Going After Strange Gods’</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Talk 6/3.00-3.20: Dr John Herdman - </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #201f1e;">‘<i>The Witch</i>: David Lindsay's Quest of the Absolute.’</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">3.20-3.30: Questions</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">3.30-3.45: Tea/coffee break<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Session Three, 3.45-5.15pm: Genre and Media</span></u><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Chair: Steven Sutcliffe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Talk 7/3.45-4.05: Jan Pick – </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">‘</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #201f1e;">John Barclay Pick: Keeper of the Flame’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Talk 8/4.05-4.25: Douglas A. Anderson - ‘David Lindsay and the Fantasy Genre’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Talk 9/4.25-4.45: David Power – </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">‘</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #201f1e;">David Lindsay and Music'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Talk 10/4.45-5.05: Se谩n Martin – ‘</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #201f1e;">Representing the Unrepresentable: Reflections on Filming David Lindsay’s Sublime’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">5.05-5.15: Questions</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Respondant to the Talks 5.15-5.30<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Chair: Steven Sutcliffe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Prof Christine Ferguson – ‘David Lindsay and 20th Visionary Fiction’ </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">5.30 – 6.00: Questions and Discussion</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">: Chair: Se谩n Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;">Unlike the Lindsay event a few weeks ago in Glasgow, this one was a paid event and will not be going up on You-Tube, or so I understand. There was mention of a published volume, which wd be a good thing.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;">--John R.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;">*I do have to confess my surprise when one comment in the general discussion that followed the event proper suggested that Lindsay's VIOLET APPLE inspired the apple scene in C. S. Lewis's THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW. Not likely, I shd have thought, seeing that Lewis never saw Lindsay's book nor knew of its existence (it was published in 1976, some thirty years after Lindsay's death and a dozen years after Lewis died). I was also dubious of a thread raised in the closing discussion asserting that Lindsay must have taken psychotropic drugs in order to imagine the things that he wrote about, for which there seems to be no evidence whatever.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></u></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/david-lindsay-edinburgh-event.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/david-lindsay-edinburgh-event.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-10T21:40:00-08:00'>9:40 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/774785354885416597' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=774785354885416597&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/A%20VOYAGE%20TO%20ARCTURUS' rel='tag'>A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS</a>, <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/David%20Lindsay' rel='tag'>David Lindsay</a>, <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/Douglas%20A.%20Anderson' rel='tag'>Douglas A. Anderson</a>, <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/Edinburgh' rel='tag'>Edinburgh</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, December 7, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='2239062544101975016' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='8157032902140580779' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='8157032902140580779'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/in-praise-of-walter-hooper.html'>In Praise of Walter Hooper</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-8157032902140580779' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p>So, today came the sad news that Walter Hooper, for many years the literary editor of the C. S. Lewis estate, has died. </p><p>He led a good long life  --he was just a little shy of ninety-- and was one of those people whose work is also their advocation. </p><p>No other single person had a greater effect on Lewis's posthumous publications, many of which Hooper edited. </p><p>His passing marks a milestone, another loss in a year of losses. </p><p>Here's a little poem I wrote in his honor several years back (2008) when he was given an lifetime achievement award by the Wade Center:</p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How pleasant to meet Walter Hooper</span></i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Whose editing work has been super</span></i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-lative. Eight thousand pages</span></i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Of the Magdalen sage's</span></i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thoughts on paper, now preserved for the ages.</span></i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;"><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">But oh how pleasant to sit over tea</span></i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">And talk of good books and of good company</span></i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He, with his "soft-spoken Southern courtesy"†</span></i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 12pt 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">And I, with ears wide open.</span></i><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">--JDR </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 68); color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small;">†the phrase is Tolkien's</span></p><p><span style="color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span> </p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/in-praise-of-walter-hooper.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/in-praise-of-walter-hooper.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-07T14:08:00-08:00'>2:08 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/8157032902140580779' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=8157032902140580779&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Saturday, December 5, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='2239062544101975016' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='9021484210722401811' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='9021484210722401811'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/bbc-lovecraft.html'>BBC Lovecraft</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-9021484210722401811' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p>So, thanks to Andrew Higgins for sharing the news that BBC Radio Four has been broadcasting adaptations of stories by H. P. Lovecraft. </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w/episodes/downloads">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w/episodes/downloads</a></p><p><br /></p><p>They've adapted three stories so far under the general rubic 'The Lovecraft Investigation', each composed of eight to ten episodes:</p><p><b>The Case of Charles Dexter Ward</b> (November 2018, ten episodes)</p><p><b>The Whisperer in Darkness</b> (November 2019, nine episodes)</p><p><b>The Shadow Over Innsmouth</b> (November 2020, eight episodes, plus three bonus episodes)</p><p><br /></p><p> The set-up, from what I've listened to so far, is that our two main characters (editor Matthew Heawood and reporter Kennedy Fisher) investigate mysteries with sinister occult overtones. Their podcast, dubbed 'Mystery Machine', is made up of phone messages, audiotaped interviews, and bits of found footage. Purists shd note that the radio program freely adapts Lovecraft's stories, as well as recasting them into the modern era. Thus when Kennedy, one of our two heroes, goes looking for the site where the sinister Dr. Allen had carried out his experiments she finds not the ancestral Curwen Home but a derelict trailer park.</p><p>So far I've been enjoying these and I'm looking forward to hearing the rest. I'm curious what the next story adapted will be -- The Dunwich Horror, perhaps?</p><p>--John R.</p><p>--current reading: RIDERS ON PEGASUS (long poem, by Owen Barfield).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/bbc-lovecraft.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/bbc-lovecraft.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-05T21:06:00-08:00'>9:06 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/9021484210722401811' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=9021484210722401811&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, December 4, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='2239062544101975016' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='1730890221039868064' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='1730890221039868064'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-northmoor-road-project.html'>The Northmoor Road Project</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-1730890221039868064' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p> So, just as C. S. Lewis's home, The Kilns, has in recent years been turned into a residential hall and study center devoted to preserving the Lewis brothers' legacy, now it's Tolkien's turn:</p><p><a href="https://www.projectnorthmoor.org">https://www.projectnorthmoor.org</a></p><p>The idea of Tolkien's house being preserved is encouraging. And who wdn't want to have the opportunity to attend "a programme of retreats, writing seminars and other cultural events", either onsite or online?</p><p>The fear of course is that they'll go too cutesy, of which there are some hints in the initial announcement  (e.g. build yr own hobbit-hole in the garden). Though Tolkien himself might approve of the garden (yard) being restored (though it looks quite nice as is from the glimpses offered in the various views accompanying the online stories).</p><p><span face="orpheus-pro" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-size: 20.43400001525879px; letter-spacing: 0.8443400263786316px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">programme of retreats, writing seminars and other cultural events, </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/03/campaign-to-buy-jrr-tolkien-house-backed-by-lord-of-the-rings-actors-ian-mckellen-martin-freeman">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/03/campaign-to-buy-jrr-tolkien-house-backed-by-lord-of-the-rings-actors-ian-mckellen-martin-freeman</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I was a little surprised that of the dozen people who show up in the promo film embedded in the link above I recognized only five: McKellan, Rhys-Davies, Freeman, Jacobi, and Lennox. The other seven I don't know, though the last of them seems to be children's author Julia Golding, who seems to be the driving force behind the project.</p><p>Also, I don't do much crowdsourcing (just the occasional Kickstarter), but isn't it unusual for a crowdsourcing project that doesn't make its goal to just keep what money they do raise? </p><p><a href="https://people.com/home/lord-of-the-rings-stars-quest-to-save-the-home-of-author-jrr-tolkien/?fbclid=IwAR2KeIoLb1exwugJBB000iRn1c5nfzHyBh1vwejhNupf8R4IplIkXt-8X8E">https://people.com/home/lord-of-the-rings-stars-quest-to-save-the-home-of-author-jrr-tolkien/?fbclid=IwAR2KeIoLb1exwugJBB000iRn1c5nfzHyBh1vwejhNupf8R4IplIkXt-8X8E</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to Janice for the link.</p><p>--John R.</p><p><br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. Rateliff</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-northmoor-road-project.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-northmoor-road-project.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-12-04T06:06:00-08:00'>6:06 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/2239062544101975016/1730890221039868064' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1705355678'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2239062544101975016&postID=1730890221039868064&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/search/label/J.%20R.%20R.%20Tolkien' rel='tag'>J. 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The presenters include Barfield's grandson (whom I'd corresponded with but not met), who gave a fairly detailed outline of his grandfather's thought; Leslie A. Taylor and Jefferey H. Taylor, co-editors of the new book; David Blakeley, the book's publisher; and moderator Gabriel Schenk. </p><p>The whole presentation is now up on You-Tube:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhvYvHA-ArI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhvYvHA-ArI</a></p><p>While the presentation seemed to me a bit unfocused I enjoyed it --there aren't many Barfield scholars out there and it's always interesting to find out what they've been working on.  Unfortunately, no doubt due to time constraints they discussed only the title piece.</p><p>The full contents of the book are three long poems (THE TOWER, THE UNICORN, and RIDERS ON PEGASUS) and four plays, three of them forming a trilogy called ANGELS AT BAY and the fourth a standalone piece called MEDEA. </p><p><br /></p><p>THE TOWER is a metaphoric one, neither the Dark Tower of Lewis's unfinished novel nor Tolkien's allegorical tower built of old stone. An ambitious undertaking on Barfield's part (originally written circa 1922, rewritten circa 1926-27), part autobiography I suspect and part his personal analogue to Wordsworth's THE PRELUDE. Unfortunately I don't think it fully came off. Of the two other long poems collected here,  I've read one: RIDERS ON PEGASUS, although the version I read was called THE MOTHER OF PEGASUS.* The other, THE UNICORN, is altogether unknown to me. On the whole I think Barfield's plays are better than his poems; he's better at dialogue than verse. ANGELS AT BAY I got to read years ago, thanks to the Wade Collection's Chris Mitchell, and quite liked. MEDEA Is the one I've been waiting for -- we've known for years that it was read to the Inklings back in 1944 (see LETTERS OF JRRT, p. 103) -- so I'm really looking forward to reading this one.**</p><p>So, it's rare that we get new never-before-published Barfield. To get such a substantial (over three hundred pages) collection is a boon to Barfield fans and shd interest those interested in the Inklings beyond just Lewis and Tolkien as well.</p><p>And now to read . . . </p><p>--John R.</p><p>current reading: THE TOWER by Owen Barfield, ADRIFT ON THE HAUNTED SEAS by Wm Hope Hodgson, ed. Douglas A. Anderson.</p><p><br /></p><p>*A bound photocopy of this book used to be on the available-for-checkout shelves of the Wheaton College Library; I suspect it had been created to be used in a class by Clyde Kilby. At any rate, when I discovered this I checked it out and photocopied the whole thing page by page, then spiral bound the results into a booklet that has been on my Barfield shelf ever since.</p><p>**For some reason the editors date this work to the 1970s</p><p><br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>John D. 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href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2023/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2022/'> 2022 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(132)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2022/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2022/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2022/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2022/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2022/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' 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class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2022/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2022/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2022/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a 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class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2021/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2021/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2021/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a 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class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2021/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2021/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/'> 2020 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(172)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/is-this-barima-opong-owusu.html'>Is This Barima Opong-Owusu?</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/who-was-kwesi-nduom.html'>Who Was Kwesi Nduom?</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/random-events-old-tsr-newsletter.html'>Random Events (old TSR newsletter)</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/peter-maxs-paper-airplane-book.html'>Peter Max's Paper Airplane Book</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/39-d-best-year-ever.html'>39% (D&D's Best Year Ever)</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-d-movie.html'>The D&D Movie</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-note-on-dambervilles.html'>A Note on d'Ambervilles</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/x2-castle-amber-revisited.html'>X2. CASTLE AMBER Revisited</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-cat-report-w1211-20-yellow-kittens.html'>The Cat Report (W.12/11-20) --Yellow Kittens</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/david-lindsay-edinburgh-event.html'>David Lindsay (Edinburgh Event)</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/in-praise-of-walter-hooper.html'>In Praise of Walter Hooper</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/bbc-lovecraft.html'>BBC Lovecraft</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-northmoor-road-project.html'>The Northmoor Road Project</a></li> <li><a href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-barfield-event.html'>The Barfield Event</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2020/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/'> 2019 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(126)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2019/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2018/'> 2018 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(99)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2018/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2018/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2018/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2018/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2018/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2018/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2018/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2014/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2014/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2014/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2013/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2013/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2013/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2012/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2012/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2012/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2012/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2012/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2011/'> 2011 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(182)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2011/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(27)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2011/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2011/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2011/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/'> 2010 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(183)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(24)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2010/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/'> 2009 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(170)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/'> 2008 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(98)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2008/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2007/'> 2007 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(61)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2007/12/'> December </a> 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