October 2010
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Raisin Race
projectgutenberg:
A raisin is strung in middle of thread a yard long, and two persons take each an end of string in mouth; whoever, by chewing string, reaches raisin first has raisin and will be first wedded.
- Mary E. Blain, Games for Hallow-e’en (1912) [full text]
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Why Advice and Advertisements?
In Jack Finney’s classic time travel novel Time and Again, the protagonist learns that the past still exists and time travel is possible if you replace all the “uncountable millions of threads that…bind us” to our current place in history with the corresponding “threads” of a time in the past. These threads are made up of things we don’t even consciously...
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