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Schuyl Kill Notes
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Almost as interesting as The Toynbee Tiles Here and Here.
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/schuylkillnotes/
You Know, Given how deep this Epstein Files is Going, this man may be onto something...
The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas - By Captain McClintlock
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Or "A NARRATIVE of the DISCOVERY OF THE FATE of SIR JOHN FRANKLIN and HIS COMPANIONS".
This, read online at haste as I don't like reading books off of my computer.
Surprisingly informative, it's the journals and records of an expedition that ... well, the title has it. When they're not finding clues (most of the book) there are some interesting anecdotes, descriptions of the customs of the Esquimaux, hardships survived and overcome, descriptions of the geology and paleontology of Greenland and Canada's northern environs. It seems never an expedition went looking for Franklin without burying a few of it's members.
Anyways, I sped read it through; you can find it online here: https://archive.org/details/voyageoffoxinarc00mcli_0/mode/2up
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Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
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Found this in a book box, was pretty sure I hadn't read it, I was right.
Rightfully declared a masterpiece, and while looking at online criticisms (most invalid and centred around the colonizers interpreting their culture and influence in currently unacceptable ways) it is only that inasmuch as these readers clearly didn't understand Marlow's point of view.
It's influence on literature - well; of course the movie "Apocalypse Now", but as well Blaise Cendrar's "Moravagine" and Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night"; In "Alien" wherein the crew is set out upon a corporate mission whose architects have concealed the peril; there are more I'm sure and it reads like more than a couple of my family vacations.
Anyways; it appears he as he was remarkably prescient; the same year he published it the Vounet-Chanoine expedition was under way; and if you've not heard of it maybe review the wiki of it here.
Every bit of it terrifying, and every bit as uncomfortable, only this was - relatively recent - history.
Demon Core
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Physicists, playing around with the fissile core of a nuclear bomb. What could go wrong, you ask?
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
Giving new meaning to FAFO.
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