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biography of herman melville

must read this later: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/30/herman-melville-mark-twain-parini

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Moby Dick is Cthulhu

So reading Todd Alcott’s musings on Moby-Dick, I was struck for the first time by something that ought to have been obvious to me long ago: The plot of Moby-Dick is that a crazy, obsessive leader goes...

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Another sort of monster

Timor Tom has me thinking about another skyborne menace. A hardshell giant twice the length of a man, which throws out clamshell claws full of stingers when it closes to attack. If it sinks its barbs...

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Timor Tom, cloud leviathan

Most of Matt Kish’s illos are just his own thing. This, though, is clearly a monster for an RPG. Timor Tom, cloud leviathan. No. Enc: unique HD: irrelevant. OK fine, 60,000,000. Move: with the wind, or...

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Matrioshka: Moby-Dick, Ahab, Queequeg, Daggoo, Tashtego, Queequeg’s coffin,...

OK, I’ma put this out there again to get it out of my head: Harry/Voldemort is so obvious that in the book Voldemort’s always already inside Harry. But if you were to rewrite HP from Voldemort’s...

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The kerosene whale

The kerosene whale is the world’s only source of lamp oil. In addition to the highly sought after, and highly flammable, eponymous oil, it provides source material for a wide variety of waxes,...

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real lost continents are the best lost continents: Carcosa wacky races and...

FIRST, the reason I’ve been silent for a while is I’ve been noodling about writing a little Carcosa/Toxic Tartary Wacky Races game for (among other things) Flailsnails on Google+. The bare outline: –...

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Jim Lad and Tin Knocker: Classes for a Romantic Cornwall campaign

so +Stuart Robertson (of Strange Magic) piped up on the old “how to refigure demi-humans for a humanocentric game” concertina again, and I loves me a rollicking sea tune. Here’s your basic 7 classes...

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