I don’t think they are making watered steel.
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March 10, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I don’t think they are making watered steel.
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[The Harz Mountains, Walpurgisnacht 1684, Jack Shaftoe tries to interpret the shadow of a goat projected onto a cloud during the rites of Hexennacht (Witches' Night)]
#Quicksilver #BaroqueCycle
Neal Stephenson
#Quicksilver #BaroqueCycle
Neal Stephenson
May 30, 2026 at 1:51 AM
[The Harz Mountains, Walpurgisnacht 1684, Jack Shaftoe tries to interpret the shadow of a goat projected onto a cloud during the rites of Hexennacht (Witches' Night)]
#Quicksilver #BaroqueCycle
Neal Stephenson
#Quicksilver #BaroqueCycle
Neal Stephenson
>> Brazatortas, Gargantiel, et de Val de las Muertas, Domino Domus de Atalaya, Ordinis Equestris Calatravae Beneficiario de la Fresneda.
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#MatureLanguage
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#MatureLanguage
December 23, 2024 at 5:23 PM
>> Brazatortas, Gargantiel, et de Val de las Muertas, Domino Domus de Atalaya, Ordinis Equestris Calatravae Beneficiario de la Fresneda.
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#MatureLanguage
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#MatureLanguage
Great big dark mounds were visible off to his right, far away.
After they continued to be there for several days in a row, Jack realized that they must be mountains.
He’d heard of them.
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After they continued to be there for several days in a row, Jack realized that they must be mountains.
He’d heard of them.
#BaroqueCycle
August 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Great big dark mounds were visible off to his right, far away.
After they continued to be there for several days in a row, Jack realized that they must be mountains.
He’d heard of them.
#BaroqueCycle
After they continued to be there for several days in a row, Jack realized that they must be mountains.
He’d heard of them.
#BaroqueCycle
Eliza straightened her spine, like a cat, and turned her face toward Daniel. She was so beautiful that he flinched.
#BaroqueCycle
#BaroqueCycle
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August 7, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Eliza straightened her spine, like a cat, and turned her face toward Daniel. She was so beautiful that he flinched.
#BaroqueCycle
#BaroqueCycle
At Herrenhausen gardens:
FUTURE GEORGE 1: What was a place for the femmes to dally in the garden is to become a site of Important Conversations.
ELECTRESS SOPHIE: Oh but it already is, my little prince, or I should say it was, until ours was interrupted & replaced by this.
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FUTURE GEORGE 1: What was a place for the femmes to dally in the garden is to become a site of Important Conversations.
ELECTRESS SOPHIE: Oh but it already is, my little prince, or I should say it was, until ours was interrupted & replaced by this.
#BaroqueCycle
December 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
At Herrenhausen gardens:
FUTURE GEORGE 1: What was a place for the femmes to dally in the garden is to become a site of Important Conversations.
ELECTRESS SOPHIE: Oh but it already is, my little prince, or I should say it was, until ours was interrupted & replaced by this.
#BaroqueCycle
FUTURE GEORGE 1: What was a place for the femmes to dally in the garden is to become a site of Important Conversations.
ELECTRESS SOPHIE: Oh but it already is, my little prince, or I should say it was, until ours was interrupted & replaced by this.
#BaroqueCycle
DANIEL WATERHOUSE: If Solomon knew all of this, why didn't he just come out and say "The sun is in the middle of the solar system and planets go round about it in ellipses"?
ISAAC NEWTON: I believe he did say so, in the design of his temple. >>
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ISAAC NEWTON: I believe he did say so, in the design of his temple. >>
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January 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
DANIEL WATERHOUSE: If Solomon knew all of this, why didn't he just come out and say "The sun is in the middle of the solar system and planets go round about it in ellipses"?
ISAAC NEWTON: I believe he did say so, in the design of his temple. >>
#BaroqueCycle
ISAAC NEWTON: I believe he did say so, in the design of his temple. >>
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Recently Daniel Waterhouse had got a bundle of letters from Massachusetts. One from Enoch Root, who’d got wind of his plan to build a sort of annex...
"For a long time I have phant’sied that one day I should find the landlord of the ruined Temple...& make something of that property."
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"For a long time I have phant’sied that one day I should find the landlord of the ruined Temple...& make something of that property."
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January 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Recently Daniel Waterhouse had got a bundle of letters from Massachusetts. One from Enoch Root, who’d got wind of his plan to build a sort of annex...
"For a long time I have phant’sied that one day I should find the landlord of the ruined Temple...& make something of that property."
#BaroqueCycle
"For a long time I have phant’sied that one day I should find the landlord of the ruined Temple...& make something of that property."
#BaroqueCycle
Like Frenchmen, crocodiles were what they were, and did what they did, and saw no point in making pretenses or apologies, and therefore possessed a sort of aplomb that Jack found admirable in a way.
#BaroqueCycle
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March 14, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Like Frenchmen, crocodiles were what they were, and did what they did, and saw no point in making pretenses or apologies, and therefore possessed a sort of aplomb that Jack found admirable in a way.
#BaroqueCycle
#BaroqueCycle
Meanwhile, back in Nagpur, Maharashtra, late 1696:
Sword of Divine Fire is having problems in his agriculture sector.
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#TheConfusion
Sword of Divine Fire is having problems in his agriculture sector.
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July 15, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Meanwhile, back in Nagpur, Maharashtra, late 1696:
Sword of Divine Fire is having problems in his agriculture sector.
#BaroqueCycle
#TheConfusion
Sword of Divine Fire is having problems in his agriculture sector.
#BaroqueCycle
#TheConfusion
Vienna, 1683:
Echelons of cavalry traversed the ruins of the Grand Vizier's camp like ripples snapped across a bedsheet.
JACK SHAFTOE: What was I just saying?
ELIZA: Oh, you were adding another codicil to our partnership agreement. Just like some Vagabond-lawyer.
#BaroqueCycle
Echelons of cavalry traversed the ruins of the Grand Vizier's camp like ripples snapped across a bedsheet.
JACK SHAFTOE: What was I just saying?
ELIZA: Oh, you were adding another codicil to our partnership agreement. Just like some Vagabond-lawyer.
#BaroqueCycle
February 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Vienna, 1683:
Echelons of cavalry traversed the ruins of the Grand Vizier's camp like ripples snapped across a bedsheet.
JACK SHAFTOE: What was I just saying?
ELIZA: Oh, you were adding another codicil to our partnership agreement. Just like some Vagabond-lawyer.
#BaroqueCycle
Echelons of cavalry traversed the ruins of the Grand Vizier's camp like ripples snapped across a bedsheet.
JACK SHAFTOE: What was I just saying?
ELIZA: Oh, you were adding another codicil to our partnership agreement. Just like some Vagabond-lawyer.
#BaroqueCycle
*Leibniz flips gold coins to make a point*
JACK SHAFTOE: He’s rich, or connected w/rich persons.
ELIZA: Yes—the clothes, the coins
J: All fakeable
E: How do you know him 2 be rich?
J: In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort & gambol. Deer & rabbits play no games.
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JACK SHAFTOE: He’s rich, or connected w/rich persons.
ELIZA: Yes—the clothes, the coins
J: All fakeable
E: How do you know him 2 be rich?
J: In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort & gambol. Deer & rabbits play no games.
BaroqueCycle
October 12, 2023 at 8:04 PM
*Leibniz flips gold coins to make a point*
JACK SHAFTOE: He’s rich, or connected w/rich persons.
ELIZA: Yes—the clothes, the coins
J: All fakeable
E: How do you know him 2 be rich?
J: In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort & gambol. Deer & rabbits play no games.
BaroqueCycle
JACK SHAFTOE: He’s rich, or connected w/rich persons.
ELIZA: Yes—the clothes, the coins
J: All fakeable
E: How do you know him 2 be rich?
J: In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort & gambol. Deer & rabbits play no games.
BaroqueCycle
VAN HOEK: What do you see to larboard, Caballero?
JERONIMO: Tied up alongside one of the great ships is a barque flying the glorious colors of His Majesty the Deformed, Monstrous Imbecile. [👑Carlos II, Spain]
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JERONIMO: Tied up alongside one of the great ships is a barque flying the glorious colors of His Majesty the Deformed, Monstrous Imbecile. [👑Carlos II, Spain]
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May 13, 2024 at 12:27 AM
VAN HOEK: What do you see to larboard, Caballero?
JERONIMO: Tied up alongside one of the great ships is a barque flying the glorious colors of His Majesty the Deformed, Monstrous Imbecile. [👑Carlos II, Spain]
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JERONIMO: Tied up alongside one of the great ships is a barque flying the glorious colors of His Majesty the Deformed, Monstrous Imbecile. [👑Carlos II, Spain]
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MONSIEUR LE COMTE DE PONTCHARTRAIN, CONTRÔLEUR-GÉNÉRAL OF FRANCE: The English have devised an extraordinary scheme for the defense of their homeland, which is that they have no money.
ELIZA: Only you, monsieur, would have the penetration to see that as a defensive strategy.
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ELIZA: Only you, monsieur, would have the penetration to see that as a defensive strategy.
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May 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
MONSIEUR LE COMTE DE PONTCHARTRAIN, CONTRÔLEUR-GÉNÉRAL OF FRANCE: The English have devised an extraordinary scheme for the defense of their homeland, which is that they have no money.
ELIZA: Only you, monsieur, would have the penetration to see that as a defensive strategy.
#BaroqueCycle
ELIZA: Only you, monsieur, would have the penetration to see that as a defensive strategy.
#BaroqueCycle
Late August 1690, The Malta Channel
NYAZI: My brother cried ‘Fly away & meet us at the caravanserai! You must be the husband of our wives, the father of our children; the Ibrahim of our race'
JACK: Beats having your nuts cut off by wild men.
N: 👊😡
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NYAZI: My brother cried ‘Fly away & meet us at the caravanserai! You must be the husband of our wives, the father of our children; the Ibrahim of our race'
JACK: Beats having your nuts cut off by wild men.
N: 👊😡
#BaroqueCycle
a small island in the middle of the ocean is visible in the distance
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May 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Late August 1690, The Malta Channel
NYAZI: My brother cried ‘Fly away & meet us at the caravanserai! You must be the husband of our wives, the father of our children; the Ibrahim of our race'
JACK: Beats having your nuts cut off by wild men.
N: 👊😡
#BaroqueCycle
NYAZI: My brother cried ‘Fly away & meet us at the caravanserai! You must be the husband of our wives, the father of our children; the Ibrahim of our race'
JACK: Beats having your nuts cut off by wild men.
N: 👊😡
#BaroqueCycle
DANIEL: You forget that I do not care whether you are pleased. I have undertaken this work simply because I phant’sy that my ends are akin to yours; & to those ends, you have provided me w/some of the means.
👑CAROLINE: 😡I have heard that there were still men like you about England.
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👑CAROLINE: 😡I have heard that there were still men like you about England.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
DANIEL: You forget that I do not care whether you are pleased. I have undertaken this work simply because I phant’sy that my ends are akin to yours; & to those ends, you have provided me w/some of the means.
👑CAROLINE: 😡I have heard that there were still men like you about England.
#BaroqueCycle
👑CAROLINE: 😡I have heard that there were still men like you about England.
#BaroqueCycle
He hadn't really known what to expect of America. But people here seem to do things—hangings included—with a blunt, blank efficiency that's admirable and disappointing at the same time. Like jumping fish, they go about difficult matters with bloodless ease.
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a fence and the word baroque is on the bottom right
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November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
He hadn't really known what to expect of America. But people here seem to do things—hangings included—with a blunt, blank efficiency that's admirable and disappointing at the same time. Like jumping fish, they go about difficult matters with bloodless ease.
#BaroqueCycle
#BaroqueCycle
A man was standing near her at the rim of the pool. He was already too close. A stranger should never have been in the garden anyway! But she did not cry out, for he was very old. He was not looking at Caroline, but at the fountain.
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September 24, 2024 at 5:27 PM
A man was standing near her at the rim of the pool. He was already too close. A stranger should never have been in the garden anyway! But she did not cry out, for he was very old. He was not looking at Caroline, but at the fountain.
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#BaroqueCycle
To a merchant, England was a necklace of sea-ports surrounding a howling impoverished waste. As with a burning log on a hearth, all the warmth, color and heat lay in the outer encrustation of ruby-red coals. The interior was cold, damp, dark, and dead.
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September 4, 2024 at 1:25 PM
To a merchant, England was a necklace of sea-ports surrounding a howling impoverished waste. As with a burning log on a hearth, all the warmth, color and heat lay in the outer encrustation of ruby-red coals. The interior was cold, damp, dark, and dead.
#BaroqueCycle
#BaroqueCycle
>of Louis-Francois de Lavardac bounced & spun in the dirt of Khan el-Khalili in the center of the Mother of the World & the dust of the Sahara began to cloud the lenses of his eyes.
The Confusion
volume 2 of
the #BaroqueCycle
by Neal Stephenson
The Confusion
volume 2 of
the #BaroqueCycle
by Neal Stephenson
February 3, 2026 at 11:07 PM
>of Louis-Francois de Lavardac bounced & spun in the dirt of Khan el-Khalili in the center of the Mother of the World & the dust of the Sahara began to cloud the lenses of his eyes.
The Confusion
volume 2 of
the #BaroqueCycle
by Neal Stephenson
The Confusion
volume 2 of
the #BaroqueCycle
by Neal Stephenson
EVEN AS DANIEL’S PROCESSION assembles at Cloisters of Westminster Abbey, other groups coalesce in more or less ancient/awesome buildings & converge on Westminster by boat, foot & carriage―stacked outside of Star Chamber like battalions waiting 4 summons onto the Fields of Mars.
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April 26, 2024 at 8:35 PM
EVEN AS DANIEL’S PROCESSION assembles at Cloisters of Westminster Abbey, other groups coalesce in more or less ancient/awesome buildings & converge on Westminster by boat, foot & carriage―stacked outside of Star Chamber like battalions waiting 4 summons onto the Fields of Mars.
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#BaroqueCycle
👑CAROLINE: I promise you, Dr Waterhouse, that if any such occasion arises, I shall send you a letter.
[As best he could in a moving carriage, Daniel bowed]
DANIEL: And I promise your highness that I shall respond—cheerfully and without a moment's hesitation.
#TheConfusion
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[As best he could in a moving carriage, Daniel bowed]
DANIEL: And I promise your highness that I shall respond—cheerfully and without a moment's hesitation.
#TheConfusion
#BaroqueCycle
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March 26, 2026 at 10:33 PM
👑CAROLINE: I promise you, Dr Waterhouse, that if any such occasion arises, I shall send you a letter.
[As best he could in a moving carriage, Daniel bowed]
DANIEL: And I promise your highness that I shall respond—cheerfully and without a moment's hesitation.
#TheConfusion
#BaroqueCycle
[As best he could in a moving carriage, Daniel bowed]
DANIEL: And I promise your highness that I shall respond—cheerfully and without a moment's hesitation.
#TheConfusion
#BaroqueCycle
Then, for a long time, none of them uttered a sound. Even Jeronimo's tongue had been silenced…
Obviously, it would take many days to cheer him up.
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Obviously, it would take many days to cheer him up.
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April 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Then, for a long time, none of them uttered a sound. Even Jeronimo's tongue had been silenced…
Obviously, it would take many days to cheer him up.
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Obviously, it would take many days to cheer him up.
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D: I am named Dappa. I was—am—a linguist.
JACK SHAFTOE: That means not a thing to me, but as we are nothing more than a brace of slaves wandering around lost in a heathen citadel, I don't suppose there's any harm in hearing some sort of reasonably concise explanation.
#BaroqueCycle
#TheConfusion
JACK SHAFTOE: That means not a thing to me, but as we are nothing more than a brace of slaves wandering around lost in a heathen citadel, I don't suppose there's any harm in hearing some sort of reasonably concise explanation.
#BaroqueCycle
#TheConfusion
February 24, 2026 at 6:52 PM
D: I am named Dappa. I was—am—a linguist.
JACK SHAFTOE: That means not a thing to me, but as we are nothing more than a brace of slaves wandering around lost in a heathen citadel, I don't suppose there's any harm in hearing some sort of reasonably concise explanation.
#BaroqueCycle
#TheConfusion
JACK SHAFTOE: That means not a thing to me, but as we are nothing more than a brace of slaves wandering around lost in a heathen citadel, I don't suppose there's any harm in hearing some sort of reasonably concise explanation.
#BaroqueCycle
#TheConfusion
MR. ORNEY: Dr. Waterhouse assures us that piss-boiling on a very large scale is needed to make phosphorus for these Infernal Devices.
MR. THREADER: His account left little to the imagination.
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MR. THREADER: His account left little to the imagination.
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June 6, 2023 at 6:59 PM
MR. ORNEY: Dr. Waterhouse assures us that piss-boiling on a very large scale is needed to make phosphorus for these Infernal Devices.
MR. THREADER: His account left little to the imagination.
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MR. THREADER: His account left little to the imagination.
#BaroqueCycle