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Going Rogue
  An American Life
Sarah Palin RW Franson
Maxims for Despots
  from The Sly Tyrant's Handbook
RW Franson

Banners for Constitutionalists
  from The Sly Tyrant's Handbook
RW Franson
Moonstone, The Wilkie Collins RW Franson
Warfare at Troynovant
  war, general weaponry,
  & philosophy of war
  [added quotation]
Music at Troynovant
  song, dance, & composers
  [added quotation]
Lincoln Hunters, The Wilson Tucker RW Franson
Snoring
  In Prehistory, Folklore, and Culture
RW Franson
Miracle and Other Christmas Stories Connie Willis RW Franson
Thanksgiving Rolled Under
  Black Friday and Forwarding the Day
RW Franson
Germany at Troynovant
  Imperial Germany, Third Reich
  Prussia, Bavaria, Austria
  history, geography, literature
  [added illustration]
Search the Troynovant website
  [added illustration]

Reversible Klondike
  Alternate History Solitaire
  [added illustration]
RW Franson
American Civil War at Troynovant
  1860-1865; freedom & slavery,
  campaigns and battles
  [added quotation]
Newsletter Connie Willis RW Franson
Russia at Troynovant
  Russian Empire, Soviet Union (USSR), Ukraine
  history, geography, literature
  Communism at home (CPSU)
  [added illustrations]
Britain at Troynovant
  British Empire & Commonwealth
  history, geography, literature
  [added illustration]
Titans' Daughter James Blish RW Franson
Remake
  [added quotation]
Connie Willis RW Franson
Eugene Post Office, The
  Eugene, Oregon 1949-1956
  [added illustration, links]
WR Franson
Dear Unknown Friend
  A Christmas Postcard, 1922
VH Franson
Soon (In 48 Years' Time)
  [added illustration]
Alexandra Kollontai RW Franson

Holiday at Troynovant
  high days of celebration
  [new index]
Holiday for Murder, A
  (Hercule Poirot's Christmas)
  (Murder for Christmas)
Agatha Christie JM Franson
Negative Railway, A F Bastiat
Bride's Story, A graphic series Kaoru Mori WH Stoddard
Love Letters William Dieterle / Jennifer Jones / Joseph Cotten RW Franson
Playing Poker with Palin NO Coulter
New Thought Police, The
  Inside the Left's Assault on
  Free Speech and Free Minds
Tammy Bruce RW Franson
Little Women Louisa May Alcott C Kalescky
First Love Henry Koster / Deanna Durbin RW Franson,
JM Franson
Underwater Shooting
  Tests & Evaluations
Lenny Magill RW Franson

Three to Conquer (Call Him Dead)
  [added bibliographic data]
Eric Frank Russell RW Franson
Men in Black
  How the Supreme Court
  Is Destroying America
Mark R. Levin RW Franson
June Chris Hutson / Felicia Day RW Franson
Beast of Yucca Flats, The Coleman Francis / Tor Johnson RW Franson
What Art Is
  The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand
Louis Torres
   & Michelle Marder Kamhi
WH Stoddard
Inn Connie Willis RW Franson
My Grandfather's Son
  A Memoir
Clarence Thomas RW Franson
Dreamland
  [added paragraph, bibliographic data]
Clarence Budington Kelland RW Franson
Mage: The Ascension White Wolf Game Studio WH Stoddard
Bring Her Down
  How the American Media
  Tried to Destroy Sarah Palin
Gina Dalfonzo NO Coulter

Great Mail Robbery, The Clarence Budington Kelland RW Franson
Arizona
  [added bibliographic data]
Clarence Budington Kelland  RW Franson
Miracle Connie Willis RW Franson
Pygmalion (film) Shaw / Asquith / Howard / Hiller  RW Franson
Feature Film reviews by Title
  [added link]
Reagan, In His Own Hand Ronald Reagan RW Franson
Strata
  the topical Troad, an alternate Contents
  [added quotation]
Insanely Great
  The Life and Times of Macintosh,
  the Computer That Changed Everything
  [added link]
Steven Levy RW Franson
Writings
  [added note & link]
George Washington RW Franson
Constitution at Troynovant
  American founding documents,
  Declaration of Independence
  & U.S. Constitution
  [new index]

As Good as The Lord of the Rings
  An epic failure of comparison
RW Franson
To Die in Italbar Roger Zelazny RW Franson
Jack of Shadows Roger Zelazny RW Franson
Reporting Vietnam
  American Journalism 1959-1975
  [added links]
—— RW Franson
Doors of His Face,
  the Lamps of His Mouth, The
Roger Zelazny RW Franson
Perjury
  The Hiss-Chambers Case
Allen Weinstein RW Franson
Poetic Troynovant
  renewing Troy in dreaming rhyme
  [added quotation]
Freddy the Pilot Walter R. Brooks RW Franson
Undefeated, The Sarah Palin / Stephen Bannon S Drake
Speaking through Texts
  a local habitation and a name
  [added quotation]

Singer Enigma, The Ann Maxwell RW Franson
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century
  Volume 1, 1907-1948: Learning Curve
  [added edition data & link]
William H. Patterson, Jr. RW Franson
Why Superheroes Wear Capes WH Stoddard
Joyleg Avram Davidson
  & Ward Moore
RW Franson
Palin Ahead of the Curve on Rare Earth Metals W Pitcher
Pentagon's New Map, The
  War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century
Thomas P. M. Barnett RW Franson
Darker Than You Think Jack Williamson WH Stoddard
Jack of Eagles
  [added reprint info]
James Blish RW Franson
Timescape Gregory Benford DL Franson
Dreamland Clarence Budington Kelland RW Franson

Desert at Troynovant
  American Southwest & other deserts
  [added illustration, links]
Lord of the Rings, The (film)
  (with Balrog Eggs)
  [added minor afterthoughts]
Tolkien / Jackson RW Franson,
DH Franson
ReFuture at Troynovant
  history of science fiction
  [added link]
LitCrit at Troynovant
  critiques in and around literary criticism
  [added quotation, link]
No Holly for Miss Quinn Miss Reed
  (Dora Saint)
JM Franson
Unwilling Hero, The L. Ron Hubbard RW Franson
Atlas Revived CB Kurtz
If Death Ever Slept Rex Stout RW Franson
Too Many Cooks Rex Stout RW Franson,
JM Franson
Law at Troynovant
  legal institutions, juries;
  lawmen, law enforcement
  [added link]

Were It Not for America
  1940-1945 / 2011
J Myrdal
Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin
  The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina
Paul R. Gregory PT Smith
Time at Troynovant
  temporal philosophy & travel
  [added link]
Church That Was at Antioch, The Rudyard Kipling WH Stoddard
Black Mountain, The Rex Stout RW Franson
Jefferson Ice Company, The
  Chicago 1927-1929, 1933-1936
  [added link]
WR Franson
Antiquity at Troynovant
  ancient times; Classical world & worldview —
  base and noble people, events, ideas
  [new index]
Cook & Peary
  The Polar Controversy, Resolved
  [added quotation]
Robert M. Bryce RW Franson
Fountainhead, The
  [an Aristotelian view]
  [added quotation]
Ayn Rand WH Stoddard
Gaming at Troynovant
  games, sports, strategy, tactics
  [added quotation]

Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, The
  A Complete Catalog
  [added link]
William Allin Storrer RW Franson
Shattered Sword
  The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
  [added photos, links]
Jonathan B. Parshall
  & Anthony P. Tully
RW Franson
Mix Pictures of the Mind
  the light of evening
  [added quotation]
Lodge in a Garden of Cucumbers, A
  in Dorothy Sayers, from Isaiah
RW Franson
On Blake's 'The Tyger' A Karra
Ishmael Paradigm, The
  A Critique of Daniel Quinn's Ishmael
G Stolyarov II
Legwork Eric Frank Russell RW Franson

Sarah Takes On Big Oil Kay Cashman
  & Kristen Nelson
RW Franson
My Life and Hard Times James Thurber RW Franson
John Galt, Man of Letters RW Franson
North and South Elizabeth Gaskell WH Stoddard
Third Man, The Reed / Greene / Cotten / Welles / Valli  RW Franson
Fuel at Troynovant
  wood, coal, & oil; wind & water; nuclear & solar
  [new index]
Gravity at Troynovant
  gravitation & antigravity - applied, shaped, & redirected
  [new index]
Seeking Chivalry and Finding Serenity
  [added illustration]
S Farrell
Illusionists, The  (Space Fear)
  [added quotation]
James H. Schmitz RW Franson

Halting State Charles Stross WH Stoddard
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution
  A Political Biography 1888-1938
  [added quotation]
Stephen F. Cohen RW Franson
Transport at Troynovant
  ships, trains, autos, aircraft, spacecraft
  [added link]
Schooling at Troynovant
  school, college, learning
  [added quotation]
We Threw the Astrolabe at a Badger ...
  Judges' Notes from the Medieval Science Fair
JM Franson,
RW Franson
Fire from the Heartland
  The Awakening of the Conservative Woman
  [updated link]
Stephen K. Bannon SE Jordan
Old Route 66
  1932, 1934, 1946
  [added illustrations]
WR Franson
King of the Texas Rangers English & Witney / Baugh / Renaldo RW Franson,
DH Franson

Death in the Air
  (Death in the Clouds)
Agatha Christie RW Franson
Jane Austen in the South Seas
  or, Centrifugal versus Centripetal Criticism
  [added link]
RW Franson
Ill Met in Lankhmar Fritz Leiber RW Franson
We Still Hold These Truths
  Rediscovering Our Principles,
  Reclaiming Our Future
Matthew Spalding SE Jordan
Outlaw Josey Wales, The Clint Eastwood RW Franson,
DH Franson
Five Thousand Year Leap, The
  The 28 Great Ideas
  That Changed the World
W. Cleon Skousen SE Jordan
Fourth-of-July Fireworks!
  Red rats and whistling chasers
JM Franson
Yesterday Was Monday Theodore Sturgeon RW Franson
Mark Twain at Troynovant
  [new index]
My First Lie and How I Got Out of It
  England: 1899
Mark Twain RW Franson

Nazi-Communist Partnership
  Elective Affinities, Offensive Alliances
RW Franson
Poker Face Theodore Sturgeon RW Franson
Hitler's Shattered Dream, 1932 RW Franson
Blott on the Landscape Tom Sharpe RW Franson
Sylmar Earthquake
   Los Angeles 1971
DL Franson
Aerospace at Troynovant
  air & space travel & development
  [added illustration]
Street Fireworks in the 1920s
  Chicago, July 4th, circa 1925
DL Franson
Log of a Cowboy, The Andy Adams RW Franson

East Europe Reads Nietzsche
  [added illustration]
Alice Freifeld,
  Peter Bergmann
  & Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
RW Franson
Bird
  The Christmastide Battle
  [Vietnam, December 1966]
S.L.A. Marshall RW Franson
O Captain My Captain SE Jordan
Weapontake at Troynovant
  weapons, martial arts;
  gun rights, freedom of self-defense
  [added reference]
Fer-de-Lance Rex Stout RW Franson
Final Deduction, The Rex Stout RW Franson
Bellwether Connie Willis RW Franson

Romance of American Communism, The
  [added quotation]
Vivian Gornick RW Franson
Under Heaven Guy Gavriel Kay RW Enstrom
Harlan Ellison's Watching
  [added discussion, quotation]
Harlan Ellison RW Franson
Ado Connie Willis RW Franson
To Say Nothing of the Dog
  [added links]
Connie Willis RW Franson
Black Pits of Luna, The Robert A. Heinlein RW Franson
Why Teenage Girls Love Vampires
  Hayashi's Theory
SK Hayashi
Allamagoosa Eric Frank Russell JM Franson

Death on the Nile Agatha Christie RW Franson
Reveille for Radicals Saul D. Alinsky RW Franson
Writings
  [added quotation]
George Washington RW Franson
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace Fisher / Christopher Lee RW Franson
So I Jumped Into the Alien Vehicle
  A Turnabout Suspension of Disbelief
DL Franson
Streets of Fire Walter Hill / Michael Paré WH Stoddard
Places Not for Reading
  Hypothetical Print-Hostile Environments
RW Franson
Princess Comes Across, The Howard / Lombard / MacMurray  RW Franson
Conflict of Visions, A
  Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Thomas Sowell SE Jordan

Good Night, and Good Luck Clooney / Strathairn / McCarthy CB Kurtz
True Confession Ruggles / Lombard / MacMurray  RW Franson
How to Recreate a Constitution
  From Amending Principles to Doing Without
SE Jordan
Robert A. Heinlein
  A Reader's Companion
  [updated link]
James Gifford RW Franson
Robert A. Heinlein at Troynovant
  [added link]
Utopias at Troynovant
  utopia in power, or dystopia
  [added link]
Night Passage Fritz Leiber RW Franson

Reporting Vietnam
  American Journalism 1959-1975
  [added illustration]
—— RW Franson
Race and Culture
  A World View
Thomas Sowell RW Franson
To Arkham and the Stars Fritz Leiber RW Franson
Plants Clear the Air
  An Inconvenient Meeting on Climate Change
SE Jordan
Basic Concepts of Government
  Rights, Federalism, and the Constitutional Republic
Publius-Huldah
Last Letter, The Fritz Leiber RW Franson
Satires [new index]
  sharp-eyed glances,
  hunting-pointed volleys
WordPoints at Troynovant
writing, editing, & publishing
  [added link]
Reagan's Revolution
  [the 1976 nomination campaign]
  [added link]
Craig Shirley RW Franson

Confined Choices
  Door, Corridor, & Maze Stories
  [added quotation]
RW Franson
Stealing Elections
  How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
  [added link]
John Fund RW Franson
Power, The Murray Leinster RW Franson
Cold at Troynovant
  cold weather and winter environments,
  survival, exploration
  [added illustration]
Schooling by Rubber Hose
  Joetown, West Virginia, circa 1912
PL Monroe
Postage-Stamp Countries
  .cc - .to - .tv - .ws etc
  [added link]
RW Franson
What's With These Apologies?
  Teaching Firearms as Useful Tools
  [added link]
KA Graham
Darfsteller, The Walter M. Miller, Jr. RW Franson
Guise at Troynovant
  roles, disguise, acting, reenactment
  [added illustration]

War Against the Weak
  Eugenics and America's Campaign
  to Create a Master Race
Edwin Black SE Jordan
Why I Am Not a Utilitarian
  Values and the Ethical Life
WH Stoddard
Livelong at Troynovant
  longevity & immortality
  [added illustration]
Follies [new index]
  light-hearted ventures,
  deep whimsy
Psychohistorical Crisis
  [added link]
Donald Kingsbury WH Stoddard
Doomed Oasis, The Hammond Innes RW Franson
Personae: an alternate Contents via emanant Olympians
  [added quotations]
United 93
  [added note & link]
Paul Greengrass CB Kurtz
Rocket Ship Galileo
  [added note]
Robert A. Heinlein RW Franson
Ship That Found Herself, The Rudyard Kipling RW Franson

Robert A. Heinlein at Troynovant
  [added quotation]
Lost in Google Earth
  or, Modern Geography
C Kalescky
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Conran / Law / Paltrow / Jolie   S Cook
We Also Walk Dogs
  [added note]
Robert A. Heinlein R Grube
Fog Willy Ley RW Franson
Our Fair City
  [added note]
Robert A. Heinlein RW Franson
Do You Wanna Date My Avatar Felicia Day / The Guild RW Franson
Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech Gordonaires RW Franson
Soundies [new index]
  shorter musical films of song and/or dance,
  music videos

Death of a Swagman Arthur W. Upfield RW Franson
Post Office to Offer Appendix Removal on Saturdays NO Coulter
Reichstag Fire, The
  Legend and Truth
Fritz Tobias RW Franson
Dead Man's Brother, The Roger Zelazny RW Franson
Disclaimers and Dedications
  enter as a small Prologue, disarmingly
  [added quotation]
Wicker Wonderland Keith Laumer RW Franson
Brass God, The
  [added etext link]
Keith Laumer RW Franson
Strategies from the Past: Boycott
  Non-Political Persuasion in Society
  [added link]
W McElroy

Great Dan Patch, The Joe Newman / Gail Russell RW Franson
Friedrich Nietzsche at Troynovant
  [added illustration]
Prisoner's Base
  (Out Goes She)
Rex Stout RW Franson
Progressives and Anarchists:
  Let's Dance ... Wait, What?
SE Jordan
Silent Speaker, The Rex Stout RW Franson
  

  
[Troy.]

Alexander (Cressida's servant):

The noise goes this: there is among the Greeks
A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector;
They call him Ajax.

Cressida:

                          Good, and what of him? ...

Alexander:

This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant — a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crushed into folly, his folly farced with discretion. There is no man hath a virtue that he hath not a glimpse of, nor any man an attaint but he carries some stain of it. ...

William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida, 1.2.12-23


  

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