The Q-word

Unsurprised much.

Which philosopher are you? Your Result: Sartre/Camus (late existentialists)   The world is absurd. No facts govern it. We live well once we truly accept the world's absurdity. YOU give our life's meaning, and YOU control your world. (see Nietzsche for very closely tied beliefs) --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer.
W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein
Nietzsche
Aristotle
Early Wittgenstein / Positivists
Immanuel Kant
Plato (strict rationalists)
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Huzzah for obscure Finno-Ugric languages and awesome grannies

Brilliant. And I learned about the Udmurt language today. I love Finno-Ugric languages, they're so distinctive and completely unrelated to Indo-European tongues. The music from that part of the world (Northeastern Europe/Western Russia) has interesting timbres and tempos, too.

PS - go 'like' this video. Evidently about 1/3 of youtube users who watched it are tasteless haters.

Sorry for the post-spam, I'm getting over-enthusiastic about stuff lately.

ETA - Another one! Apparently the translation of the title is "Very Long Birch Bark and How to Turn it Into a Turban." <3

Drabble catch-up, and Input on narrative tense appreciated

Firstly, in resuming work on the ‘Natural Disasters’ Tolkien_Weekly challenge, I decided to assemble the whole series to date here in case readers forgot what the Void my drabble series was about during the month-long intermission (it’s about the siege and destruction of Utumno, and thus highlights shenanigans by some of my usual suspects).

Secondly, and bafflingly, the first drabble of this series is narrated in the past tense, and all subsequent drabbles in the present tense.  Evidently I don't pay conscious attention to the narrative tense I employ in drabbles.  Looking over things, it appears I’ve leaned more toward present tense since a series that I almost titled collectively ‘Palantíri Pals” (Saruman and Sauron both nixed that soundly and proceeded to deplore my existence).
So, I’ve a favor to ask.  I can’t decide how to resolve the narrative tense inconsistency here.  If anyone looking at my work from the outside has an opinion, please do chime in!


( 5 of 7 drabbles currently completed. .Disclaimer: Characters belong to Tolkien. No profit reaped by myself, aside from a wealth of intellectual giddiness... )