http://natsecorma.net/terje Everything and nothing Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:00:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I'm sitting in my room, working on my linguistics home exam, and I'm trying to explain why the verb paint in the sentence his father was painting a picture is not the same verb as the paint in the sentence his father never painted again, right? My line of ... http://natsecorma.net/terje/archives/732 "Constantinople was an impregnable city ..." -- Robert B. Kebric, Roman People (4th edition), epilogue. http://natsecorma.net/terje/archives/731 Just watched The Matrix, but seeing as I've already reviewed this movie somewhere else on this blog, I'm going to limit myself to pointing out how much the whole Matrix/human batteries thing seems like something out of Marx. You've got your people, right, who can be likened to either the people ... http://natsecorma.net/terje/archives/730 Man, I did not until a few seconds ago realise what an inane title Interview with the Vampire really is; it is scary to see just how much an article can matter... Anyway, I had my sister over for dinner a couple of days ago, and we watched this thing, mainly ... http://natsecorma.net/terje/archives/729 "In the year of his tribunate (58 B.C.), Clodius made the ordinary people of the city of Rome (plebs urbana) a significant power in politics for the first time. By comparison, the exile and return of Cicero (58/57 B.C.) was a second-rate phenomenon that was of primary concern only to ... http://natsecorma.net/terje/archives/728 [Approximately 435 BCE] 2003. Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt (1954). Introduction and notes by John Marincola (1996, 2003). 600 pages of main text. 166 pages of paratext. The Histories is primarily the tale of how a few Greek city states put their disagreements aside for a while and united to resist the Persian invasion of ... http://natsecorma.net/terje/archives/727 1998. 396 pages. Eos Fantasy Paperback. First published novel in the Tales of the King’s Blades series. In the kingdom of Chivial, it is the task of the Loyal and Ancient Order of the King’s Blades to supply the king and his chosen servants with bodyguards. Boys, unwanted troublemakers for the most part, are taken ... http://natsecorma.net/terje/archives/726 "Raised in an Ibo village (in modern Nigeria), Olaudah Equiano (ca 1745-1797) was kidnapped by African raiders and slod into slavery. He survived the horrors of the Middle Passage to the New World, where an English naval officer bought him ito serve as a cabin boy and renamed him Gustavus ... http://natsecorma.net/terje/archives/725 1954. 274 pages. Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks. Paperback. Skafloc, kidnapped when he was a child and raised by the elves, received the sword Thyrfing as a naming day present from the Aesir. This was considered a perverse gift by most, as the sword has been broken by Thor to prevent it from being used to ... http://natsecorma.net/terje/archives/724 "To Athens and Sparta Xerxes sent no demand for submission because of what happened to the messngers whom Darius had sent on a previous occasion: at Athens they were thrown into the pit like criminals, at Sparta they were pushed into a well -- and told that if they wanted ... http://natsecorma.net/terje/archives/723