The Kindness and Harshness of History
Will the future be kind to the history we are writing? A treatise on historiography through the lens of literature in various of its forms.
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Cognitive Dissonance: The Spy thinks about thinking oppositely about the same thing at the same time.
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Humour from a Christmas past, wishes for Christmas present, and hope for always Christmas and never winter.
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"); document.write("Writing on 2025 09 11, the Spy reflects upon how our world has changed over this past quarter-century.
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The Spy comments on change and makes a modest proposal (apologies to Swift)
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A much less optimistic than formerly Spy makes predictions, some routine, others dismal.
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Want the people no truth? Let them eat deception. The Spy also has an initial report on a new network toy.
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The Friends, volume two of The Interregnum wins EPPIE 2004 for best SF novel of 2003.
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