Recovered from Too Much Of A Good Thing

Yesterday I spent in a corner, making exactly like a snake who'd just eaten a warthog. The Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday evening (one must adapt a bit to local conditions) at my cousin's place, by and for his American wife (she gets so homesick at Thanksgiving, and he sorta lends her his family - awwww!) was just as it was supposed to be: far too much. Peacock feathers were in evidence in a vase. They didn't get used after all, but I poked fun at it while I was still able to do any poking.

Later, I fell to thinking that America must have seemed like the legendary Land of Plenty to those early settlers who started the tradition of Thanksgiving. I mean, no measly, hard-shelled wheat, but huge, succulent corn cobs; gigantic turkeys so stupid a child could hunt them instead of the mean geese from back home; a small plant you just pull from the ground to harvest huge tubers that would fill you up easily; and then the pumpkins! Everything was oversized to those ex-British starvelings; small wonder they were grateful for that miraculous new country. And the natives were still friendly then as well; from all I hear that was the point of the whole exercise, right? What a wonderful place to come to, after being the lowest of the low back in England...

More Watchers!

Sorry, first link is in German. wiebke can read the source, the rest will have to believe me.-

German online magazine Telepolis reports that linguists from New Zealand quote statistic evidence that the Indo-European family of languages originated 8.500 to 9.000 years ago in the highlands of Anatolia. The findings are by no mean non-controversial or uncontested, but still.

All of us who have been at GrisseCon know who lived exactly in that place exactly at that time. Did these people really invent everything we use, even the precursor of the effin' language today's global mainstream culture is carried by???

At a slightly different note: wiebke told me at the chat that Ricardo was totally surprised and flabberghasted at GrisseCon when he listened to Andy Collins' lecture about the Watchers - because he had never heard of them, but realised immediately that they were almost identical to the Chosen in his books (that he thought he had invented all by himself)!! I thought he'd done it all on purpose, masterfully working with archetypes from every human culture, making the Watchers the hub of a civilisation that spread worldwide, but I was wrong! It wasn't on purpose, it was the archetypes asserting themselves by purely memetic strategies: being part of our culture, Ricardo knew the Watchers without realising that he did.

Now he knows officially and up-front. I only hope that new knowledge won't interfere with his finishing the third part of his wonderful book...