Thread:Ruthless Ames/@comment-70.183.99.12-20140619035405

Hi Ruthless Ames!

Just saw a comment by a middle-aged con-running fan, saying he wasn't up on the BREENDOGGLE. What an awesome resource to be able to send him to, to get up to speed on every little detail, and supplying all the context of the times!

I don't see any particular statement of purpose for this wiki popping up in 2014, other than than eternal imperative to keep cons safe and sane. SO MUCH TO LEARN, for the newbies, by studying all this material. Indeed, I'm almost seeing a BREENDOGGLE panel for SMOFCON....

I helped on a book republication project, Edward Perry Warren's Defense of Uranian Love, another pedapology constructed from snippets of Greek, Latin, etc. EPW was of course part of the Uranian milieu in the UK that ran from the 1890's until his death in 1928. It's a similar story:  one turns over the rock and finds all kinds of things scuttling around. Only EPW was much richer and much more discreet than WB, and his aesthetic conoissership extended to much more than coins.

Anyways, I don't know if you are looking for more editors, but I am (dare I say) fairly up in this field, and have a research-assistant frame of mind. Let me know if you're interested in having me help edit. www.cyparissus.com  ---mark miner 