My last two pieces, on fan violence and dyed hair, between them spurred more discussion than anything I’ve yet written in this newsletter. With the permission of the authors, I will quote some of their very thoughtful replies, with further thoughts of my own. American readers are baffled by the need for the safety measures at… Continue reading Sports Fanatics
Out Sick: Being Ill in Italy
You haven’t heard from me in a while (and I may not be very coherent today) because I’ve been seriously ill for two weeks now, with a lung infection that came on during a nasty flu. I’m now doing a course of injected antibiotics (the oral ones didn’t make a dent); let’s hope that works.… Continue reading Out Sick: Being Ill in Italy
Ivaldi: Table of Contents
Available chapters are shown as links below. Book 1: True Seaborn The City of Light 01Light supplement: The Ivaldin Calendar The Font of Knowledge 02fontknow Overnight Success 03Overnight Bard in a Gilded Cage 04Bard More Tales from the Font of Knowledge 05MoreTales Carilla and the Long Arm of the Law 06Carillalaw Chitra Has an Engagement 07Chitraengaged Book 2: Teja Red-Headed Stranger b201red… Continue reading Ivaldi: Table of Contents
Fiction: Ivaldi
I began Ivaldi during my undergraduate years at the University of Texas at Austin. Douglass Parker, a professor of Classics, taught a course in Parageography – the geography of fantasy worlds. The reading list ranged from The Odyssey to Tolkein, and I remember vividly the day Dr. Parker came bounding into class, waving a book… Continue reading Fiction: Ivaldi
The Ivaldin Calendar
The Ivaldin year consists of eight months of 45 days, each divided into nine morens of 1, 2, 3,… 9 days: One Month Moren 1 Day 1 Moren 2 Day 1 Moren 2 Day 2 Moren 3 Day 1 3-2 Moren 3 Day 3 Moren 4 Day 1 4-2 4-3 Moren 4 Day 4 Moren… Continue reading The Ivaldin Calendar