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The oldest folklore yet—of caves and flintknapping. Uuugh would that I were still an archaeologist.
— Jan 11, 2025 05:27AM
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It’s masterful, another take on his book Redshift, and the oddness of these books manage to cut painful questions out of me about my life and family and attempts at meaning and connection. Hard to talk about.
— Jan 12, 2025 02:24PM
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I am already immediately excited. This is a totally different book from Weirdstone and Gomrath, a sequel fifty years later. Colin is an adult, alienated, using kerosene lamps in the 21st century, ill in some way.
I find his inability to have a normal conversation endearing. I would talk much like this if I didn't mask—and like Colin, I do answer questions left unanswered from much earlier in the conversation.
— Jan 11, 2025 05:13AM
I find his inability to have a normal conversation endearing. I would talk much like this if I didn't mask—and like Colin, I do answer questions left unanswered from much earlier in the conversation.
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Jan 11, 2025 06:16AM
I think you still are! The training and reading and activities you engaged in still have a part of your perception and interests (I still consider myself an ecologist 😁)
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Was my first career wish, too. (Okay, Egyptologist, but still...)
Nelle wrote: "I think you still are! The training and reading and activities you engaged in still have a part of your perception and interests (I still consider myself an ecologist 😁)"Thanks for the reminder Nelle—our past is what created our present self, and it's good to remember that. Anthropology and archaeology are still a huge contributor to my worldview.
Berengaria wrote: "Was my first career wish, too. (Okay, Egyptologist, but still...)"
Egyptology gets all the fans! For some reason people think discovering the lost temple of Nefertiti is more exciting than photographing different colored patches of Californian soil that show where wooden posts used to be before they rotted. But Nefertiti had plenty of stuff written about her, I like the egalitarian data of trash heaps!
Uvron, I'm sorry you are carrying around such a huge emotional wound, that you feel it necessary to lash out and accuse someone of being a trend-sucking elitist swine who was only offering a supportive, empathetic comment to say they understand the feeling you expressed in your comment. I'm sorry I said anything. But look, one unfair attack is one attack too many. I don't need nor deserve that and it won't happen a 2nd time.
I wish you healing and joy and love and lots of great reads and fab Californian post digs (if that's your wish) in the future. Have a wonderful life! Bye, unfriending now...
The person who helped discover the lost temple was an Egyptology professor of mine, who taught an excellent seminar on Akhetaten (Nefertiti's husband). I respect her work and it is part of that influential experience that formed the worldview I mentioned.Archaeologists are professional colleagues who enjoy making lighthearted jokes about each other's subfields, in the same way welders joke about electricians. I think it's pretty obvious that I chose a patch of different-colored dirt example for self-deprecating humor and not because I sincerely believe that's more exciting than a lost temple, but you never know how someone on the internet will manage to misread you!
