“If rules make a frame-work for the mind to climb about in, why should the mind not climb right out?”
“What need or prayer? Why should there be a hundred roads to Godliness, not more or less? Do we climb anywhere on the steps to heaven? What is perfection: a process or state? When we climb to perfection is this a matter for the Gods?”
Sage of Dissolution
The Sage of Theare, Diana Wynne Jones
Some time ago I read an interesting treatise on how to build with polystyrene. It was a great read and offered many ideas and techniques when working with polystyrene. I need to look through my reference materials and locate my copy. At any rate, I just came upon this 21 slide online presentation that details how one can get started in Scratch-Building Rolling Stock with Styrene. I believe the presentation was created with O-gauge in mind; however these hints can be used in any scale.
Having read just about all of Farmer’s Wold Newton series, I am looking for more of Farmer’s work. Here is a short list of titles listed by one of the A Feast Unknown’s biographers:
World of Tiers
Riverworld
The Lovers
Day World
Two Hawks from Earth
Khokarso
“…an Evolution strangeMary Swenson
Yes, the name of this novel was taken from a line from Mary Swenson’s poem. This novel was the first in Farmer’s Wold Newton Parallel Universe series. I didn’t have the benefit of reading this novel before reading the later texts in this series. This is the first of Farmer’s work that did not include footnotes. Farmers’ works is usually riddled with footnotes that often help by giving you the back story.
A Feast Unknown, like Farmers other work, takes the reader on an amazing adventure. The novel is written as it is the diary of Lord Grandrith, “the legendary Apeman, Lord of the Jungle and bastard son of Jack the Ripper.” There are many dark themes that unfold as the story progresses.
