The full quote is found in Dreams of a Spirit-Seer (originally published as Träume eines Geistersehers, 1766) by Immanuel Kant, available through Wikisource. Kant expresses – with his dry sense of humour, but not without a certain Lovecrafty ominousness –[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for September, 2009
Mochi tells the nasty man to “shut up” in Japanese. The debate here reflects my annoyance with old adventure stories, where ancient African civilizations almost invariably were led by white people, and intelligence was measured by European beauty standards. Of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a tough one – because of Nyarly’s technobabble. There are other items that I would like to introduce, but the tuning fork did an impromptu entrance. He would of course have more effective oscillators for more sinister purposes.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Falco’s little medal looks like this. I usually draw all my religious trivia from the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 edition. He probably received it as a gift from the Daughters of Charity, working in the slums of Paris. Even though this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…