The transcripts are live. Once again, they are very minimal recording notes. I’m sorry they don’t have art in the way they used to, but I thought it more important to get them up to date than to polish them. Many of these episodes will eventually be recut into other forms (like the Cornwall material…
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The Pentamerone 9
This ends the main run of The Pentamerone. I won’t be recording “The Three Citrons”, the final story, because it’s a parallel to the deeply racist frame story. Following this, I’m going to upload the three Librivox stories I couldn’t find a use for as a bonus episode, and then I’m going to summarize the…
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Venice : The Place of Saint Mark
This week a break from the historical work we are following, to shift over to a travel diary by the American consul of Venice during the Austrian occupation. It describes the centre of Venice, and notes that the seasons seem to alter the Personality Traits of the inhabitants. It also gives us the commercial structure…
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The King of Elfland’s Daughter 10
Two minor notes for this section. Zironderel says she disenchants then reenchants the sword, but instead I’d argue she just supresses its magic. Statistics for the lesser wisps are already found in Realms of Power: Faerie, but statistics for Greater Wisps and the Kennel Trolls will be added eventually. CHAPTER XXVI: The Horn of Alveric…
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Was Pendule a follower of Plotinus?
In Second edition, there was a magus mentioned called Pendule. He refused to join the Order, but met with some members in secret, teaching them his techniques. The key sentence is that his magic was more sensual than Hermetic magic. He expected the magic to change the magus, not be dominated by the magus, as…
Read MoreTranscripts for January to March 2021
The transcripts for January to March 2021 are available. There’s no art, again, for which I apologise, but it seemed more important to catch up.
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The Pentamerone 7
This week, we continue our charge through the Pentamerone. Thanks again to Joy Chan for her recording. I’ll be popping in with bits of folklore, and a surprising amount of culinary lore. XXIII: THE TWO CAKES In the penguin edition, the word “pizza” is used wherever “cake” is used here. It’s not a modern pizza,…
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Venice – The Stupidest War (Treviso)
And here we see Venice’s absolutely stupidest causus beli. Literally ever. It starts six years before the game period, and ends four years before, so a new group of magi might meet at a gathering held to watch the festivities. During his dogado a year of Jubilee was appointed by the Pope—1214—in thankfulness for the…
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The King of Elfland’s Daughter 9
This is another one of the episodes I can sit out, while Dunsany pays off his earlier work, but I’ll note a few things. Orion offers a story to the troll, and he accepts it, redefining his statistics. Orion can not stray into Faerie or his faerie half will claim his mortal half, much as…
Read More2021 – Annual state of the podcast
I’m unable to sleep because I’ve been bedridden for days with influenza, so I’m writing this up a week in advance. I apologise if I’m not entirely lucid: my wife has noticed that I’m extremely absent minded on flu medication. The podcast celebrates its fifth birthday on May 25th. It has about 40 people who…
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