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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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To summarize, a young man first loses his cat, then his wife, and things take a few turns from there...
This was a thick read at some 600 pages, interesting, and I was right, I had read it before, the scenes in the well were all I recalled, and those poorly, so it was if I were reading it fresh again. An interesting pool of characters, the twining of plots, surreal, Murakami is a masterful writer.
Qin Shi Huang
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A short read on Qin Shi Huang - site of the burial of China's First Emperor, and home of the Terracotta warriors. Of interest, they've only excavated .1% of the grounds, and there is fabled to be a river of mercury surrounding his tomb. The scale of this rivals or even exceeds that of the Pyramids...
Link: https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/27/china-first-emperor-tomb-sealed-terracotta-army/
and the Wikipedia for more depth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang
Paleolithic Dildos
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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Then, on reddit, there was this supposedly sincere posting wondering if his "rock" was in fact an ancient artifact, and what kind of rock it was. The rock:
User was querying what type of rock it was, and could it have been a pestle?
Most definitely a pestle, but allow me to describe the mortar...
I've not heard of any North American Examples; but there are plenty of Paleolithic dildos found dating back to 30,000 years or more, all over Europe, Africa, Asia, etc, etc. So it should be no surprise that there would be a few here as well...
The funniest thing was how many comments accurately told him what it was, only to have their comments deleted by the moderator for being "juvenile" or "puerile".
Anyways, that would have been a great post for "Legit Artefacts" or "Artefact Porn" - !!! really, just on the wrong sub. But damn, that ups my game, no more hunting the arrowheads and the jade adze, I need to find a paleolithic dildo for my collection....
The Most Unfortunate Man in Pompeii...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I mean, they were all unfortunate; maybe he just knew what was coming (no pun intended) and chose to spend his final moments...
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