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Views: 354In this phantasy tale you will be charmed by the virgin sun goddess, Suldrun. She is locked away in a secret garden. Her purity and grace like tessellating dewdrops in the dawning sun. Alas, she must die. Her virginity is taken, her child is taken, her husband is taken, she hangs herself from a… Continue reading Suldrun’s Garden by Jack Vance book review.

Views: 437This chronicle, if true, sets precedent for purge style retribution by enslaved peasants.Burn, rape, and pillage.England, France, and Spain.Kings, queens, and barons.Castles, knights, and squires.Fiefdom, serf, and noble.Ransom, rest, and relaxation. It’s the year 1300s. You own a castle. You didn’t die during childbirth. Besides subsistence farming, trapping, water fetching, hunting with falcons, and… Continue reading Froissart’s Chronicles by Jean Froissart book review

Views: 331Rich people are the best. This book is one of my favorite. The way they talk, fight battles, and present their fortune to familiar heirs, the three ermines passant. It’s true, these rich bastards have everything except experience, which can be purchased through officer entitlements in the King’s service, the dragoons. You get caught… Continue reading Waverley by Sir Walter Scott book review

Views: 339The doctor is addicted to cocaine, chewing the coca leaf. It gives him extra energy and focus that every Inca knows. In the high Andes you must chew the cud of the coca for survival, to open your soul to the thin mountain air, to give you strength TO ENDURE. RED BULL (Moloch) gives… Continue reading The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O’Brian book review

Views: 297When the witches speak you better listen. Especially if you’re a philandering priest, impregnating the buxom duchess who you seduce during Latin lessons. The witches will shriek and scream, strike a pose and expose themselves to their exorcists and onlookers who come from all around to see the Devils of Loudun. The witches will… Continue reading The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley book review

Views: 275The androgynous virgin prostitute wears a muslin veil standing on a stone alter. The men of (insert impotent secret society name here) await their turn with Sophia. Sick, disgusting, sad, weak, men; like faggots of wood burning in a fire. Kissing each other’s ass to release The Kundalini, diddling each other’s lower chakras in… Continue reading Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco book review