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I think the authors name was a pseudonym, and something like Jaques, maybe? The title may have been something like Little Angels. Olympia was black, and a major caricature. She's very fat, and has a large bosom. It was a display book in a furniture store, so the cover/title/author may not be accurate, though.

I remember pulling up the Wikipedia article for the author at one point after reading it in ~09?

The little girl's friend was wealthy. Like, insanely sane. They leave and adventure, end up very bad off. Adopted by a very nice preacher and his wife, that turn out to be evil, and may have been the literal devil (which would be the only sort of fantasy aspect that I can recall), and Olympia bursts in at the moment and rescues.

That's really all I can remember. I've tried for years.

Adding this to my bookwyrm!

I love the magicians nephew. Favorite book in the series. Do you mind me asking how it changed your life?

The yoga of patanjali, is that an advaita text? I've been trying to find my fellow non dualists on lemmy, and haven't had much luck.

I do not appreciate you spying on me and posting about it. Rude.

That's not it, but looks fascinating! I read it 15 ish years ago, but if I had to guess I'd say it was early 1900s setting or before.

There's a book I read as a teenager that changed my life in that it feels like a weird fever dream, and I've never been able to find it again. I had to wait for a manager at a furniture store for half an hour, picked up a display book from a shelf and as started reading. It's about a girl who has become orphaned, goes to live with her friend (who everyone calls her sister because they have the same birthday), and then the two of them run off together, end up getting adopted by possibly the literal devil, and are rescued by the friends maid, Olympia. French book translated to English, pretty sure. Loved that book, had a pretty big impact on me, and I've searched ever since. :(

Bootlicking.

Same boat. I'm poor as fuck. I hate that I make so many decisions to buy things I know aren't the option ethically, and that applies so hard to yarn. Really anything in the textiles industry. I try not to buy animal fiber at all unless it's thrifted.

I have, in fact, gained access to your sphincter vault. I will be emailing these pictures to both of your grandfather's (and 2 excoworkers). Please send me 40 million dollars to scammy(dot)scam scam(at)notascam(dot)com.

Thank you.

Any way you could tell me/link me to somewhere to figure out how to do that? Bonus points if an idiot (me, I is the idiot) can understand it. I'm willing to pay 20 bucks a year... I just don't know how.

Those are gorgeous though. I don't have the skill to do anything like that yet. I'm mainly stuck on sleep masks and warshrags. Haha. That cabling looks amazing

I'm hoping this may also help some of the people who tend to disregard western medicine as simply an arm of big pharma. If they can see an organization like WHO reaching out to traditional medicine, it may help them accept those sorts of organizations. One of the biggest problems with people like that is that so much of what they are afraid of, and complain about, are legitimate complaints, they're just levied at the wrong groups, because they lump everything together, from their local PCP to Pfizer to the WHO. Maybe this can help a little bit.

It's a wonderful habit! Don't listen to me. Haha. Fiber crafts are seriously awesome. I'm a total novice at crochet, an intermediate knitter (Portuguese style), and I sew half way well. It's so much fun, and so worth it. ... Just read your coupons carefully.

Maybe not as expensive as the others, but crochet/knitting/sewing all start off fairly cheap, and then the next thing you know you're offering to service old men behind a Joann's fabric because you need this particular fabric and you need an entire bolt of it, and it's the one fabric in the entire fucking store that isn't on their amazing buy one get 73 free sale for the week.

I really hope they can use this to decipher the Harappan script. That's like the holy grail of lost languages for me. I want to know so badly!

Honestly I don't think this is the way tech is going to go. Will it be possible? Almost surely. Will the average person get it? I seriously doubt it. I think it's going to be one of those technologies that people talk about, that the tech bros hype up, but when it comes to real world implementation, I think most people would skip it for something a little more detachable. Ar glasses/contacts maybe. But actually having a surgical procedure to implement something like this seems unlikely to me.

For me, glass bottle plastic bottle fountain can.

I don't like canned sodas. They taste wrong, and I hate the way they feel against my mouth.

Gonna try to remember to come back to this in a few hours. Gotta few. If someone wants to respond to this to remind me if I don't post by tomorrow, that'd be cool. (Will lemmy ever get a remind me bot?)

It seems like a nice life of culture and debauchery.

Not in my Bible!