If on the beach, look right. If you see a glow it's probably too late.
]]>Nope. He wasn't there, he wrote about it later. Josephus was captured several years earlier at a similar seige.
However there were two women and five children that survived at Masada, which I had forgotten about.
]]>That would make Bob's job so much harder. I imagine Angleton saying "We have class-2 rapper in Wolverhampton developing a rhyme for 'money'. If he picks 'honey' or 'sunny' there's no problem, but if he picks 'funny' the British isles will be overrun with werecamels."
]]>Oops. Quite right. Just goes to show that memory isn't to be trusted! I blame the lesser form of K syndrome. Still I Wonder if OGH could work the josephus problem into the maths of the Laundry.
]]>(I suspect you misapprehend just how bleak those two stories are.)
Nnnoo, it's more an unwillingness to part with such wonderful settings. The adventures of Yuri Gagarin sailing the endless seas with his trusted crew of Spetsnaz is just too awesome to let go so easily. At least we get the laundry which is similar enjough to "A colder war"'s setting to satisfy that itch.
I didn't realize the colder war narrator also had fallen into K-tulu's brain*, he did mention that was the likely fate of his family and all who remained on earth. Unreliable narrators, I always fall for them.
Speaking of which, If I understand correctly, at the end of Glasshouse, Robin/Reeve is exactly where he should be, the whole situation having been engineered to keep dangerous war criminals/veterans like hir away from civilian society.
If it's any consolation, I had a slight problem with that, took me out of the story a bit. I had the impression, Cthulu wasn't, like, a bad guy. Just he wakes up and kills us all.
]]>You know where it came from, right?
Yuri Gagarin bore a striking resemblance to the young William Shatner, and his behaviour was a dead-ringer for James T. Kirk (charismatic, impulsive, womanizing, hard-drinking: not in actual fact what you'd want in the captain of a nuclear powered ekranoplan, but I'm giving him credit for being able to grow up a bit if he lived another decade). And a plausible case can be made that Star Trek is propaganda made by Space Communists. Yes? If I recall correctly, at one point a certain first officer actually says, "Captain, that is not politically correct". Bear in mind that in the USSR, politics (at least in theory) arose from a logical dialectic based on economics and class theory ...
]]>In much the same way bulldozers aren't evil. This may be little condolence when one is bearing down on you, your anthill, and every ant you've ever met.
There are other entities in the Lovecraft universe that do stoop to torturing souls like small children pulling wings off of flies.
]]>Somebody once listed the French interventions in Africa for the past few decades (many!). They had a theory that the Us-assigned role for France was to 'take care of' Africa.
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