Category Archives: miscellaneous
The Riddler
I have been relating the story of the Camel, a prophet of ancient Iran. I wouldn’t say he was a Persian prophet, because he probably never saw the kingdom of Pars in his life, and he lived before the founding of the Persian Empire. However, his entire life was spent in what would become the [...]
God and the Camel from Kurdistan
Long ago, there lived a Kurdish priest in the kingdom of Medea. I say that he was Kurdish because that’s what he’d be today. I say that he was a priest, for that’s how the story goes, but some say that he was an imposter. Whether priest or imposter, this man was certainly a instigator [...]
Spaceflight
Darkness swallows the East Hills almost utterly—even today, on the edge of the mammoth agri-industrial complex of the Great Valley. The startling exception to the darkness and silence is that interstate artery—I5—that seems, to a bystander or a pedestrian, to be a channel of rockets, roaring and flashing in two opposing streams, utterly enclosed in [...]