World Building and Woolgathering

I have, in the past, showed some interest in the Caucuses. I recently finished reading a copy of The Knight in Panther Skin , the Medieval...

Stepping forward from the last such post, I mentioned Dorothy L Sayers. I suspect it is in the climax of one of her novels ( Strong Poison )...

Recent reading has included The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks , by Robertson Davies (1913- 1995) and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by O...

Faufreluches:  the rigid rule of class distinction enforced by the Imperium.  'A place for every man and every man in his place'. ...

I enjoy the work of Dorothy L Sayers. She is known best as an author of detective stories, but she also wrote plays, translated Dante and cr...

Faufreluches:  the rigid rule of class distinction enforced by the Imperium.  'A place for every man and every man in his place'. I...

Faufreluches: the rigid rule of class distinction enforced by the Imperium.  'A place for every man and every man in his place'. I...

A few things to mention here.  *** Layer Cake is a 2004 film. It is not about baking.  It's about a business-like cocaine dealer in con...

 I wrote in my World of Lazarus review : There's a nice section on how an organisation a GM creates might grow and plot to advance itse...

I have been reading the first volume of Cao Xueqin's 1760 novel The Story of the Stone , better known perhaps as The Dream of the Red Ch...