{"id":361,"date":"2005-12-14T16:41:26","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T21:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/12\/14\/magic-island\/"},"modified":"2005-12-14T16:41:26","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T21:41:26","slug":"magic-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/361","title":{"rendered":"Magic Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw Joan’s mention of Aunt Carol’s game<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Beverages included? What about spices?\n<\/p>\n

Ok, ok…\n<\/p>\n

If I spend any more time, I’ll just keep fiddling around with them, so here are my picks—\n<\/p>\n

Corn, tomatoes, spinach, almonds, eggs, cheese, avocados, vanilla ice cream, strawberries, and raspberries.\n<\/p>\n

And we get to share, right?\n<\/p>\n

How about if we add to the game?\n<\/p>\n

I wasn’t there at the genesis, but what if we discovered a chest on Magic Island containing three books—a Holy Bible, the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, and Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language (unabridged)—and each of us could pick three additional books, which the chest would produce for our group library. There would be no other books on Magic Island—for the rest of our lives.\n<\/p>\n

What three volumes would you choose?\n<\/p>\n

Here are my selections—\n<\/p>\n

The I Ching (or Book of Changes), The Odyssey of Homer, and James Clavell’s SHÕGUN.\n<\/p>\n

When faced with picking books with pictures or books with words, I chose words. When faced with making more universal choices or being selfish, I decided to be selfish.\n<\/p>\n

What about you?<\/p>\n

Would you pick a how-to book, a cookbook (not a bad idea), or a collection of reproductions? Literature? What about a book with blank pages—no other books on Magic Island means just that—or a work you’d want the other inhabitants to read?\n<\/p>\n

Nobody knows how long the chest’s magic will last.\n<\/p>\n

Hurry, but choose wisely…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw Joan’s mention of Aunt Carol’s game. Beverages included? What about spices? Ok, ok… If I spend any more time, I’ll just keep fiddling around with them, so here are my picks— Corn, tomatoes, spinach, almonds, eggs, cheese, avocados, vanilla ice cream, strawberries, and raspberries. And we get to share, right? How about if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,42,29,44,31,6,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}