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At Futurismic, A Crazy Little Thing Called Artificial Love is a “Future Imperfect” flash fiction post.

Via a mailing list: a somewhat vulgar Cracked story about 6 writers who accidentally produced masterpieces was funny but also educational. Who knew that the Year Without a Summer kept Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin indoors long enough to invent Frankenstein and by extension the entire genre?

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Via GeekPress: [The] Lord of the Rings as Property Law. and Property Law in The Lord of the Rings. The latter features an itemized list of all ways, licit and ill, in which the One Ring is acquired by its various ill-fated possessors. For example:

I. Acquisition by Creation.

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