"Ian Rendell - General Bibliography"

General Bibliography

This is my General Bibliography where I store information for current and prospective stories.
Sorted into my rather dubious categories, they mainly pertain to the way in which I'm going to use the information, rather on the exact information type. So you may see some strange inclusions.
The links are predominately YouTube videos with a scattering of Wikipedia and general internet.
For bibliography used for a specific story, you will need to select the story and the view option in Select Stories

Key

YouTube

Wikipedia

General Internet

Quotation

Arthur C Clarke - Magic
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Greek Proverb - Planting trees
A socienty grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they'll never sit in.

Gunga Din
Gunga Din is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling set in British India. The poem is much remembered for its final line: "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din" There is also a song by Jim Croce who's lyrics I sang to my kids while growing up. I shan't forget the night When I fell behind the fight With a bullet where my belt plate should a' been I was chokin' mad with thirst An' the man that spied me first Was our good ol' grinnin', gruntin' Gunga Din He lifted up my head An' he plugged me where I bled An' he gave me half a pint of water green It was crawlin' and it stunk But of all the drinks I've drunk I'm most grateful to the one from Gunga Din

Hitchcocks Axiom
A good story is Life, with the dull bits taken out.

It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.
TBD

Jason Roper Quote
Ah it's like any creative endeavour, you just get better at being less shit, and more adept at identifying your mistakes.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.
By Mark Twain.

Napoleon Bonaparte - Never interrupt your enemy...
"Never interrupt your enemy while they're in the middle of making a mistake."

No plan survives first contact with implementation.
Andy Wier - the Author of the Martin

Open Seseme
The phrase first appears in Antoine Galland's Les Mille et une nuits (1704–1717) as Sésame, ouvre-toi (English, "Sesame, open yourself"). In the story, Ali Baba overhears one of the 40 thieves saying "open sesame". His brother later cannot remember the phrase, and confuses it with the names of grains other than sesame, becoming trapped in the magic cave. Sesame seeds grow in a seed pod that splits open when it reaches maturity, and the phrase possibly alludes to unlocking of treasures, although it is not certain that the word "sesame" actually refers to the sesame plant or seed.

Primative Ways
Primitive (first) skills are our shared inheritance. It is the shared thread which links us to our prehistory and binds us together as human beings.

Pussycat Swallowtail
One day...someone will spot it and smile.

Reading a book
Reading a book is simply staring at a dead piece of wood and hallucinating.

The axe forgets; the tree remembers. :Zimbabwean proverb.
The axe - From an obscure post on reddit.

The moving finger.
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.” ― Omar Khayyám

There are no solutions - Only tradeoffs
Last Updated: 12/26/2023 04:19:05.364