I have added a new section to the blog called Lafferties , featuring quick synopses of stories along with a trivia game. The real dives are the notes, resources, and posts, but I wanted a convenient way to jog my memory on my iPad and jumping cables for when I flag, so I put this together. I have also added a Celestial Atlas  section for a future project.

By sámi artist Andreas Alariesto (1900-1989) Although the human race must be regarded as a unit intellectually and physically, there have existed and still exist differences which permit a classification into various groups and races. Even the most ancient remains of man, dating from the glacial period in Europe, show differences that justify the acceptance of at least two races. Remains of skeletons that certainly belong to the Quaternary age have been found in France, Germa

“In conceiving a story or inaugurating a plot which involves threads weaving with threads, if the thread A, or viewpoint character, should figure with the thread B in an opening incident of numerical order n  (with respect to the incidents in the conditions precedent) there must be invented a following incident n + 1  involving threads A and C; an incident n + 2  involving threads A and D; an incident n + 3  involving threads A and E; and so on up to perhaps at least n + 4  o