When I was a young lad I wasted too much time reading outrageous things. One useful bit of all those hours lost reading nonsense came to me today. I was writing the introduction to this article when I remembered an old tale by a Russian author. That writer used a very ingenious device to place the readers outside history looking in.Imagine a report, written by a quasi-immortal being from a very old race living in a distant galaxy. We will call him Lord Blot, a man exiled to a planet in the … [Read more...]