Re: CPR Entry - Technogrammaton
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:14 amUpload in the usual manner, with CPR or Cyberpunk compo in the title line
Well, he did it, and he found beautiful wikicommon images.
Alternate History + X-Files + When Gravity Fails. Pretty Sweet.
Too bad the border text got reversed, but it's still better than the cover art for the CP2020 When Gravity Fails supplement, which just had nonsensical scribbling on the Arabic store signs. This is actual Arabic, just reversed, and maybe with spelling errors (hard to tell when it's backwards like that).
I liked the bit about Martin Luther. Actually the sources of shari'ah (usul ul fiqh) were established about the year 800 (about the same time the Popes in our world were setting up an all male, celibate priesthood), in a book called Ar Risalah, by a scholar named Ash-Shafi'i, and it would make sense for someone to say, "He's full of it" because people today can't agree on if he was full of it or if he was the best thing since sliced bread. Shi'ites are especially like, "He was full of it." but maybe that has more to do with how disparagingly he wrote about the Shi'ites.
I'll have to get myself some more wooden cubes and burn myself a set of fudge dice with the first letters of the Hebrew words for "more" and "less" on them.
Well, the jinns in the garden can be thankful for their lives. Maybe Rob will leave some wine out for them. Or is it only the Japanese that leave wine out for their jinns? I seem to recall they leave honey out for the jinns in England. Or is it Arabian jinns that like honey, and English jinns like milk? I know it is Hawai'ian jinns that like poi, and they are the only jinns that even know what poi is. Maybe the jinns have gotten in the computers, and their ancient vows to King Solomon is what makes them respond to gematria. Oooooh.
