"The law says you must be married to a prince by your next birthday."
- The Sultan of Agrabah
I am not about to claim that Disney put any significant time or effort into constructing a self-consistent universe for its retelling of Aladdin. This article is meant more as an exercise of Law in Literature, of deriving a consistent system from observation of behaviour, than a definitive statement of fact.
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Hasty exits usually translate into
objects left behind, but
you were
unusually conscientious.
Carefully removing almost every trace of yourself
(almost).
I have found two boxes of tea,
English Breakfast.
One slipper,
the one the dog did not eat, and
a single tube of lip gloss (mocha)
found accidently, while looking for car keys…
Every so often I try to let everyone know what I'm doing. Generally, I'm not doing anything too exciting, and certainly not anything new. Last time I mentioned that I had been reordering writeups within nodes -- something that I do at least a couple of times a month, and sometimes more frequently. This may not exactly qualify as exciting, but I did receive a lot of messages about this, both from people who thought this was a good thing and those who thought it was a bad thing.…
Thousands of years ago, pre-vedic Indian culture evolved a lunar calendar/almanac in which the moon and the stars consistently found in its path were charted. These moon-path star clusters (called star mansions or Asterisms) were called nakshatra. and given proper names. The base lunar calendar evolved into the Vedic star almanac, the Chandrarama. Chandra, the moon, visits these mansions in its monthly trajectory around the earth.
There…