• Fire on the Mountain: what if Harriet Tubman had been with John Brown at Harper's Ferry? = Black Socialist Utopia established in the south and a better world for all, with moon boots
  • History Without Hitler: "Had he come, let us say, 10 years later, when the republic was firmly established, it would have been impossible for him. And if he had come 10 years previously, or at any time when there was still the monarchy, he would have gotten nowhere."
  • The Yiddish Policeman's Union: now we see through a glass darkly, a world like ours but with Big Macher department store
  • I should probably read/watch The Man in the High Castle
  • Kazaam / Shazaam
    • "Mandela Effect: a theory that a large group of people with the same false memory used to live in a parallel universe (the name comes from those who fervently believe that Nelson Mandela died while in prison)" o_0
  • Caliban and the Witch: capitalism wasn't the inevitable successor of feudalism; we could have ended up with radical free love peasant communes instead, if early modern Europe hadn't been all about that witchhunt life...is I think what this book is telling me?
  • Guy who closed the gates at Hougoumont during the Battle of Waterloo didn't join the Coldstream Guards or stayed home sick that day or something
jan 17 2017 ∞
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