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The whole creation of the OED was enough to write some Cthulu story on.

A madman as a major contributor, an editor that lost the entries (O was found in scotland ready to be used as fire kindling).

Winchester is a great writer, and can make a lot of stuff sound interesting...

As for my quote:


Forgetting extermination is part of extermination, because it is also the extermination of memory, of history, of the social etc. This forgetting is as essential as the event in any case unlocatable by us inaccessable by us in its truth. This forgetting is still too dangerous, it must be effaced by artificial memory.

Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan (2000).
 

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And another for good measure:

Your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire;
In your very presence invaders devour your land;
It is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.

Isaiah 1:7
 


tarchon said:
However, as Winchester also notes, that encounter is entirely fictional, invented by an unscrupulous "journalist" many years after the fact. :)
Nag Hammadi was a cool discovery too.
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You know you're right my entry should probably be disqualified - it's admittedly fiction by the author no less. I still found it quite evocative, however, and wanted to share. The real story is no less fascinating - even if it is a bit longer and less impactful.

I read the book a couple of nights ago and can recommend it highly.
 

A little more on (or moron) the humorous side, but it might make a good intro for a modern comedical adventure: (And yes, all mistakes are intentional, this book is a collection of horrible College essays)

"History, a record of things left by past generations, started in 1815. Thus we should try to view historical times as the behind of the present. This gives us incite into the anals of the past."

From "Non Campus Mentis", compiled by Professor Anders Henriksson.
 

Good setup for an adventure in the appropriate time period:

"The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace."

H.L. Mencken, quoted in A Mencken Chrestomathy
 

If you really want to tempt fate and deal with science and/or religion in an adventure, how bout this:

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."

M. Cartmill
 

Okay, heres a great one if you wanted to run an adventure using a historical figure (in this case rasputin) in your game:

"There was no sign of life, no pulse. Rasputin was dead. But when Felix shook the body, its left eyelid trembled and its face began to twitch. Rasputin lived!

Felix was so terrified he could not move. But Rasputin, his eyes blazing, leapt, bellowing, to his feet and seized the Prince by the shoulder. He foamed at the mouth and repeating: 'Felix... Felix... Felix...' over and over again... Felix tore himself away... [and] ran out of the room shouting... that Rasputin was still alive.

Rasputin, on all fours, crawled up the stairs after him, still repeating his name... Purishkevich [a conspirator] drawing his revolver, ran down the stairs... But Rasputin, instead of continuing up the stairs, burst through the side door into the courtyard."

Christopher Dobson. Prince Felix Yusupov: the man who murdered Rasputin.

(I hope this counts. It is non-fiction, but told from point of view that almost makes it seem fictional.)
 

And for a pirate adventure:

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

H.L. Mencken
 


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