Update on My Book

This is coming a little bit late, but I think that it is worth a post: I am done with the draft of my book! This is not like the "first" draft, but it is the first, all-in-one-place draft. Technically I still have a genealogy to create, an index to figure out, and a couple …

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Problems of Convenience: A Modest Propsal

Author: Jonathan Swift Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Commentary Jonathan Swift, Irish by parentage but Englishman by citizenship, wrote A Modest Proposal in 1729. During the time he wrote this, there was great suffering in Ireland, and the English seemed to be at a loss as to how to deal with that problem. As the name might …

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Book Update, the Middle East, and the World

Well, it has been over a month since the last time I have given any sort of update on my book. This is much longer than I would have hopped to go, but alas that is how things are. I have yet to finish this section, but hopefully that will happen soon so I can …

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The Middle East, Grecians, and the People of the Sea

Despite of, or perhaps because of, my lack of activity on here, I have actually managed to make quite a bit of progress on my book in the last week and a half or so. So much so that I even found time to paint, which is something I have missed doing. I am slowly …

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Magog, “Natives”, and Latin

Hello all. Today I come with good news and bad news. The good news is that I finished writing about both Togarmah and his uncle Magog for my book. The bad news is that I found it nearly impossible to find information on this Magog character. He is a person who has much written about …

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