For me, the most interesting parts of For Want of a Nail are the deeply weird bits where the alt.historian, who generally convinces you he's telling the alt.history to you pretty straight as far as history goes, starts wandering off into a line of bull about a particular period that seems almost certainly there as the official cover-up of monsterous atrocities of certain alt.governments of the alt.timeline.
So ends up as a straight-faced history of stuff that didn't happen, which also lies to you about what the stuff that didn't happen actually was. Yay for unreliable turtles all the way down!
You know I'm pretty sure, due to the massive increase in nameless dread and crawling incomprehensible horror that alway occurs when it starts happening, that if an internet discussion thread ever goes sufficiently densely meta it will eventually have almost the same effects on consensus reality as applying the Turing-Lovecraft theorem would...
...I mean it's pretty obvious that the Office of Total Information Awareness wasn't anything other than a (now re-absorbed) division of the US equivalent of The Laundry isn't it?
Some odd combination of Flood I & Flood II, Sisters of Mercy.
...and I didn't have that particular earworm before reading this thread, so I hate you all... :)
Serge...
...well, when Obelix threatens you with a Menhir then you put what he says into your industrially processed meats.
Umm, what were we talking about again? Oh, barred spiral galaxies. Tasty, tasty, fried in boar-fat, barred spiral galaxies. Mmmmmmmmmm.
Sorry, I need to go eat.
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