Dec 7, 2006 11:59 PM

Erratic Thoughts for 12/07/2006

John: Phnglui mglw’nafl Cthulhu r’lyeh w’gah nagl fhtagn. Annalee: The best novel ever written about Berkeley, academic politics, magic and the SCA is Peter S. Beagle’s out-of-print masterpiece The Folk of the Air. I hear he’s revising it in preparation for a re-release, which scares me. The original is already great. So get it now! […]

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