Guise at Troynovant:
Dissemblance on Masks and Disguise,
Roles and Avatars, Acting and Reenactment;
listed by Title

Note that works with actors or disguises or deception and the like are not listed here unless these are a major factor in the work; or the review involves general discussion about roles and role-playing in some historical or psychological sense. — For general mystery stories, see Detection.

The Stoics held that planet [Luna, the Moon] to be mixed of fire and air, and in their opinion, the variety of its composition, caused her spots. Anaxagoras thought all the stars to be of an earthly nature, mixed with some fire, and as for the Sunne, he affirmed it to be nothing else but a fiery stone; for which latter opinion, the Athenians sentenced him to death; those zealous Idolaters counting it a great blasphemy, to make their God a stone, whereas not withstanding, they were too senseless in their adoration of Idolls, as to make a stone their God.

John Wilkins
The Discovery of a World in the Moone
or, A Discourse Tending to Prove
that 'tis probable there may be another habitable World in that Planet  (1638)


  
Agent of Vega James H. Schmitz RW Franson
Annotated Sherlock Holmes A. Conan Doyle RW Franson
Augustus Mandrell series
  (the Commissions)
Frank McAuliffe RW Franson

Bone Is Pointed, The Arthur W. Upfield RW Franson

Call Him Dead (Three to Conquer) Eric Frank Russell  RW Franson
Campaigning in the World of Atlas Shrugged WH Stoddard

Demon Breed, The (The Tuvela) James H. Schmitz RW Franson
Disappearing Act Margaret Ball RW Franson
Do You Wanna Date My Avatar Felicia Day / The Guild RW Franson

Escapade Walter Satterthwait RW Franson

Fluttering Hearts Parrott / Chase RW Franson
Freddy and the Ignormus Walter R. Brooks RW Franson
Freddy the Cowboy Walter R. Brooks RW Franson

GURPS Fantasy William H. Stoddard RW Franson
GURPS Steampunk William H. Stoddard RW Franson

Harpo Speaks Harpo Marx
  & Rowland Barber
RW Franson

Leo Strauss and Nietzsche Laurence Lampert RW Franson
Living in the Current Middle Ages
  Discover The Society for Creative Anachronism
S Farrell

Mark of Zorro, The Johnston McCulley WH Stoddard
Murder Is Announced, A Agatha Christie RW Franson

Participatory Fiction WH Stoddard
Poirot Loses a Client
  (Dumb Witness)
Agatha Christie RW Franson

Revolt Christopher Anvil RW Franson

Sixth Column Robert A. Heinlein R Grube
Stealing Elections
  How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
John Fund RW Franson

Three to Conquer (Call Him Dead) Eric Frank Russell  RW Franson
Time for Delusion, The Donald L. Franson RW Franson

We Are Not Amused, Sir Guillaume Scott Farrell RW Franson
W.S.C. - A Cartoon Biography Fred Urquhart RW Franson
  

  
[The Roman camp, Britain.]

Posthumus:

                            So I'll fight
Against the part I come with; so I'll die
For thee, O Innogen, even for whom my life
Is every breath a death; and, thus unknown,
Myself I'll dedicate. Let me make men know
More valour in me than my habits show.

Gods, put the strength o'th' Leonati in me.

To shame the guise o'th' world, I will begin
The fashion — less without and more within.

William Shakespeare
Cymbeline, 5.1.24-33

  


  

Right-Click on the Masks title link to open "The Mythic Mask" article from Endicott Studio in a new window.
  

  

  

  

Detection at Troynovant
solving mysteries; detective agencies

  

Humor alloys to clarity,
we sketch ourselves:
scirtnecce rof rorrim a 

  

Utopias at Troynovant
utopia in power, or dystopia

Philosophy at Troynovant
nature of existence; history of ideas


  

In what then does philosophic politics consist? In satisfying the city that the philosophers are not atheists, that they do not desecrate everything sacred to the city, that they reverence what the city reverences, that they are not subversives, in short, that they are not irresponsible adventurers but good citizens and even the best of citizens. This is the defense of philosophy which was required always and everywhere, whatever the regime might have been. ...

This defense of philosophy before the tribunal of the city was achieved by Plato with a resounding success. ... The effects have lasted down to the present throughout all ages except the darkest ones.

... the political action of the philosophers on behalf of philosophy has achieved full success. One sometimes wonders whether it has not been too successful.

Leo Strauss
"Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero"
On Tyranny
Revised and Expanded Edition
Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence  (1948; "Restatement" in 1954, 1963, 1991)
edited by Victor Gourevitch & Michael S. Roth

 

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