Spermatic-animal-seminal rays!
September 4, 2003 1:35 PM Subscribe
The Air Loom Gang were undercover Jacobin revolutionaries, bent on forcing Britain into a disastrous war with Revolutionary France; operating a device hidden in a London basement, they beamed their diabolical rays directly into the brain of James Tilly Matthews, who drew detailed technical diagrams of the device while confined at Bedlam. The spiritual father of all paranoid schizophrenics since, he had a fascinating set of delusions. [More inside.]
I shall henceforth be known as "MrMoonPie, Absolute Sole and Sacred Omni Imperious Arch Grand Arch Sovereign Omni Imperious Arch Grand Arch Proprietor Omni Imperious Arch-Grand-Arch-Emperor Supreme." Thank you.
posted by MrMoonPie at 1:48 PM on September 4, 2003
posted by MrMoonPie at 1:48 PM on September 4, 2003
I love stuff like this. I wish there was a languagehat channel.
posted by vraxoin at 2:05 PM on September 4, 2003
posted by vraxoin at 2:05 PM on September 4, 2003
a 23-languages channel? wouldn't that be a nightmare of subtitles?
posted by matteo at 2:10 PM on September 4, 2003
posted by matteo at 2:10 PM on September 4, 2003
This is fantastic! I'm going looking for that book.
Here's another fascinating book on a footnote to British history.
posted by Mayor Curley at 2:31 PM on September 4, 2003
Here's another fascinating book on a footnote to British history.
posted by Mayor Curley at 2:31 PM on September 4, 2003
Damn. Now I too (like Mayor Curley) am going to have to buy that book. Thanks, languagehat!
posted by carter at 4:51 PM on September 4, 2003
posted by carter at 4:51 PM on September 4, 2003
Anyone here ever play Bedlam, the text adventure, oooh, must have been twenty years ago...
posted by five fresh fish at 7:28 PM on September 4, 2003
posted by five fresh fish at 7:28 PM on September 4, 2003
fff, yes I had the cassette-stored Bedlam game for the TRS-80. Had I known about the rich history of the actual place, I might have found it more interesting! Great link, languagehat.
posted by samuelad at 7:31 AM on September 5, 2003
posted by samuelad at 7:31 AM on September 5, 2003
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