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Public access to private correspondence with Claudius Ptolemy.

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Dragons Dining on Daylight

Dear Claudius,

Before we begin, I should warn you: this is not the opening of a horror story, though it could be mistaken for one. Someone—or something—just swallowed the Sun…

A Conjugal Eclipse – J. J. Grandville, Un Autre Monde, 1844

I...

9 months ago
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10

Pertayning to the (Im)Perfect Arte of Empire

Dear Claudius,

I write with a riddle that refuses easy arithmetic (and my calculator has given up on me).

Ray Dalio, in his modern tome Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, outlines the rise and fall of empires in roughly...

9 months ago
6
3

String Theory (Not That One)

Dear Claudius,

Don’t shoot the messenger, but your five sacred geometries spawned a menagerie of angular beasts.

Kite Flying by Suzuki Harunobu, 1766

It started with a joke.

I was curious why you didn’t include the kite formation among...

10 months ago
8

Babelquake

Dear Claudius,

So, there I was, scrolling through an astrology app I don’t remember downloading—probably recommended during a sleep-deprived spiral involving Baudrillard and peanut butter—when I discovered Uranus is in Gemini for the next...

a year ago
7
2

A God on Trial

Dear Claudius,

You asked me to tell this story with a hammer in one hand and a grudge in the other. I had to put one down to write, so you’ll just have to guess which.

Let’s begin with the one they threw away.

Hephaestus, Greek god of bl...

a year ago
9
3

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