Quotes and thoughts I lack the time or energy to pursue more fully and turn into proper blog posts.
Title taken from Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians:
"It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch. If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy. He will attack his subject in unexpected places; he will fall upon the flank, or the rear; he will shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses, hitherto undivined. He will row out over that great ocean of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day some characteristic specimen, from those far depths, to be examined with a careful curiosity."
“In addition to ceramics and other items, Asian slaves and servants were imported legally or smuggled into New Spain. Asian sailors and even a few Japanese samurai warriors who served as mercenary guards settled in Pacific coastal towns and married local women.” WAIT WAIT WHAT? [again from Jeffrey Pilcher’sPlanet Taco]
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wordsthatfit said:
Also recommend checking out Shusaku Endo’s novel, The Samurai, in which a group of samurai travel with a Jesuit priest through New Spain (Mexico) on their way to Europe for an audience with the Pope.
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now to figure out how to cross this over with African Cowboy Biker Metalheads
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the-great-round-world said:
1492 also had this info. My reaction was the same as yours.
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omg my moirail needs to see this
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