tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post6286482545667802616..comments2024-03-24T17:06:47.135-04:00Comments on Story Bones: Linkee-poo, they say he's got to go… go, go GodzillaSteve Buchheithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-1352836989537670232013-08-05T09:01:36.313-04:002013-08-05T09:01:36.313-04:00Ronti, If you would like to repost without making ...Ronti, If you would like to repost without making your comment appear as spam, that would be fantastic.Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-48286633512503632332013-02-21T17:16:14.266-05:002013-02-21T17:16:14.266-05:00Hey Cris Brown, thanks for the compliment, but you...Hey Cris Brown, thanks for the compliment, but your comment looks like link spam. If it's not, you can repost without the non sequitur link, or explain how the link relates.Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-86777865042139652162013-02-21T13:34:03.596-05:002013-02-21T13:34:03.596-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16728644482828567612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-3320518650905595852013-02-19T17:46:32.670-05:002013-02-19T17:46:32.670-05:00Yup. There's actually a whole history on the p...Yup. There's actually a whole history on the publishing of religious tracts of the "You're Going to Burn In Hell" variety (as compared to the Martin Luther "I think the Church is wrong about this" tracts that actually got the movable type printing business going strong). But my friend John has quite a collection of them. It's kind of a hobby of his (the collections of them, not so much the distribution). Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-20854895641907254122013-02-19T16:22:25.586-05:002013-02-19T16:22:25.586-05:00The more things change, the more they stay the sam...The more things change, the more they stay the same: the link re: "Where to leave tracts" reminded me of Wilkie Collins' <i>The Moonstone</i>, which I only got around to recently. There's a character--one of the narrative viewpoints, in fact (the story rotates through a series of narrators)--who leaves Christian tracts everywhere she visits. Indeed, it's a running gag, with the character spending paragraphs and paragraphs describing all the places in a room she considered leaving a pamphlet, and all the places she actually left one, just so one of the poor unsaved wretches she has to deal with can stumble across the Word at just the right time. (Her efforts eventually put her in the right place at the right time to secretly eavesdrop on a minor plot development.)<br /><br /><i>The Moonstone</i> was originally published in 1868. Collins, if you don't know, was a chum of Charles Dickens'. Religious litterers have been around forever, it seems, and it turns out others have been making fun of them for almost as long.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275812152895151542noreply@blogger.com