For those who feel the world is too defined, too ordered, and too local, I offer this entertainment: a thread in which to place short notes of completely random memes, bits of the unexpected, the irrelevant, the serendipitous and the sort of pieces of information that make you turn sharply to the left instead of continuing what you were looking at a moment ago. Here's an example:

It is interesting to note that when Diocletian issued his famous edict (referred to in Brother Lemert's letter) he believed that in burning the manuscripts of the alchemists he was destroying the source of the Egyptian gold supply. On this see "Demonology and Devil-Lore" in two volumes, by Moncure Conway, Vol. II, page 303.

A real "go-figger" sort of moment, huh?

Regards.


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