Pun, trifle,Lovecraftian horror, or fine art? You decide. (The Water, 1563-64, by Giuseppe Arcimbaldo)
April 2018 archive
City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas [Reading Challenge 2018]
City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas by Roger Crowley Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York 2013 [Challenge # 3: A book taking place mostly or all on the water] I was a little concerned that City of Fortune, which was a history of the city of Venice between the 11th and 16th centuries, …
A Medieval Feast
Next were borne round dishes of carp, pilchards, and lobsters, and there after store enew of meats: a fat kid roasted whole and garnished peas on a spacious silver charger, kid pasties, plates of meat’s tongues and sweetbreads, sucking rabbits in jellies, hedgehogs baked in their skins, hogs’ haslets, carbonadoes, chitterlings, and dormouse pies. — …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 4/4/18: Zimiamvia
In The Worm Ouroboros E.R. Eddison dazzles the reader with innumerable exotic and fantastically named people, places, and things. Unfortunately, they don’t all adhere to a consistent linguistic base, and no less a luminary like J.R.R. Tolkien criticized the author for this. Some character names sound Latin, such as Laxus, Corinius, Corund, and Corsus. Others …
Uncanny Valley
The Geisha robot came too close to the Uncanny Valley for most patrons to be comfortable with. (Art by Nick Keller)
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