📖 "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

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"Catching up with the daughters of Atlas". #PleiadesGazetteer managing editor Tom Elliott delivered this paper in the Presidential Panel of the Association of Ancient Historians Annual Meeting 2026 in Iowa City, Iowa, on Thursday, 16 April 2026: https://pleiades.stoa.org/docs/papers-and-presentations/conference-paper-catching-up-with-the-daughters-of-atlas-2026-1/conference-paper-catching-up-with-the-daughters-of-atlas-2026

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Registration is open for a three-part, free, "Getting Started" online workshop series to orient and train new people interested in using and contributing to the #PleiadesGazetteer of ancient places: https://pleiades.stoa.org/events . The series will run from 4-6pm US Eastern time on Tuesday, Thursday, and Tuesday 2, 4, and 9 June 2026.

Three or four more sets of these three-parters will be run later in the summer (and on different weekdays and different times to accommodate schedules and timezones). Additional announcements will be made when those dates and times are set.

Boosts appreciated.

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Quasit's Book Recommendations: "A Confederacy of Dunces" (1980) by John Kennedy Toole

It's hard to imagine that there's anyone who •hasn't• read this American classic, but I suppose anything's possible—right? This is another of my family books that my parents and siblings all read and quote. We love it.

It's the story of Ignatius J. Reilly, who can only be described as a unique. Grossly fat, contemptuous of a modern world that he regards as decadent and ignorant, Ignatius wages a one-man war against everything that disgusts him - which is almost much everything.

"Then you must begin a reading program immediately so that you may understand the crises of our age," Ignatius said solemnly. "Begin with the late Romans, including Boethius, of course. Then you should dip rather extensively into early Medieval. You may skip the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. That is mostly dangerous propaganda. Now that I think of it, you had better skip the Romantics and the Victorians, too. For the contemporary period, you should study some selected comic books."

"You're fantastic."

"I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman."

Ignatius' adventures in early-1960s New Orleans are unforgettable. An accident forces him into an agonizing job search; the jobs he gets are ever more catastrophic. He comes up with one campaign after another to reform the world; each is more bizarre and hysterical than the last.

"Ooo-wee!" Jones said when he looked out the door. "The green cap mother. In person. Live."

"I see that you've wisely decided to hire a particularly terrifying Negro to protect you against your enraged and cheated customers," the green cap mother said to Lana Lee.

"Hustle him off," Lana said to Jones.

"Whoa! How you hustle off a elephan?"

"Look at those dark glasses. No doubt his system is swimming in dope."

What can I say? The book is just a treasure. One of the funniest books ever written.

"Hey, you a junkie?" the boy called to Jones. "You look like a junkie to me."

"You be lookin pretty junky with a Night of Joy broom stickin out your ass, "Jones said very slowly. "Night of Joy broom old, they good and splintery."

Due to an inter-family squabble, "A Confederacy of Dunces" has never been filmed or adapted to TV. In my book that's a blessing. I can only imagine what Hollywood would have done to it!

Unfortunately you can't borrow the book from the Internet Archive, but honestly this is one that's DEFINITELY worth buying. I've found plenty of copies in used book shops, so that's a good place to start. Or you could always borrow it from your library.

Happy reading! 🤓📖

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Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (27 April - 4 May 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 13 new and 165 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Tom Elliott, Brady Kiesling and Enes Yılandiloğlu.

A list of all new and changed resources, complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-27-april-4-may-2026

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Quasit's Book Recommendations: "Tactics of Mistake" (1971) by Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson's Dorsai books are one of the great unfinished series of classic science fiction. Set in the late 22nd century, it's the second novel in the series representing a time when the great Splinter Cultures are first being founded.

The basic concept is that humanity has expanded to several dozen star systems from Earth, and in the process self-selected to create splinter cultures which represent basic aspects of human nature: Faith, Philosophy, Courage (War), and Science. The series focuses most and is named after the culture of professional soldiers and warriors: the Dorsai. Born men of war, they make their living as a planet by hiring out their people as mercenaries; in the arts of war they are effectively unbeatable. Many see the Dorsai series as the pre-eminent example of military science fiction. But it doesn't glorify war.

This is the story of how the Dorsai came to be. Lieutenant Cletus Graham, a scholar and soldier, makes his way from Earth to other worlds—with plans to make a better universe for the human race.

This book is the most realistic one of the series, as others include heavier doses of philosophy and transcendent elements. I think that's why it works so well for me.

At the same time one of the elements that makes this book so memorable for me is the autohypnosis practiced by the protagonist when he has to deal with pain and incapacity from an old war wound. It feels as if it could work, and I can't help but think about it when I'm in pain myself. In fact, that's why I'm recommending it today; I was talking about putting on a band-aid, and that reminded me of a scene in the book!

"Still drifting, still in that more primitive state of mind known as regression, he connected the pain response in his knee with the pain message in his mind, and began to convert the message to a mental equivalent of that same physical relaxation and peace which held his body. Drifting with it, he felt the pain message lose its color. It faded, like an instruction written in evaporating ink, until it was finally invisible.

He felt what he had earlier recognized as pain, still present in his knee. It was a sensation only, however, neither pain nor pressure, but co-equal with both. Now that he had identified this former pain as a separate sensation-entity, he began to concentrate upon the actual physical feeling of pressure within the blood and limb, the vessels now swollen to the point of immobilizing his leg.

He formed a mental image of the vessels as they were. Then, slowly, he began to visualize them as relaxing, shrinking, returning their fluid contents to those pipe systems of the leg to which they were severally connected."

Sadly, the books are hard to find these days (although I believe they're all still in print), and •none• of them are available for loan online via the Internet Archive—although they're all available commercially in ebook format.

Perhaps I should mention that a real organization exists that was inspired by the Dorsai series; the Dorsai Irregulars. They serve as security at some science fiction conventions.

Oh, and speaking of science fiction conventions: I had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Gordon R. Dickson at Universicon, not too long before he died. He was frail, but still sharp and friendly.

Happy reading! 🤓📖

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