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Brin ([personal profile] brin_bellway) wrote in [community profile] readallthenewberys 2013-07-16 12:41 am (UTC)

in his Lives of Twelve Caesars.

The italics here are unclosed. (Though I actually got used to the whole post being italicised after a while. Not that I don't want you to fix it.)

"to counteract the privateering of the Knights Hospitallers, based out of Malta until 1522". WHY DOES NOBODY EVER TELL ME THESE STORIES. The Christian-vs-Muslim Pirate Wars of the Mediterranean! Tell me there's a scholarly unbiased book. There has to be a book. Please? :S

I haven't played in a while, but wasn't there an Age of Empires campaign along those lines? (This being a heavily fictionalised version, they ended up having to band together to destroy the Fountain of Youth.) Which just makes me want to know what really happened all the more.

Nino, if you are Nino - what is this. I... presume you're not going to die? Because you're alive 3,000 years later?

Is this going to be a Blackadder-style thing? An implied framing story involving reincarnation, which they don't actually pay any attention to because it's just an excuse to put roughly the same characters into different situations throughout history?

Nino will live forever, young and happy, and will see the history of this coast and be able to tell about it. Which tells us what the rest of the book is going to be about. ;-)

You win this round of Guess What Happens Next, then.

(Behold the range of my Wikilearnings! XD)

*thumbs up*

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