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While digging around looking for something else, I came across three notes from a LONG time ago -- 20 years or so. I no longer recall writing them, but they are unmistakably in my handwriting.
Note #1 -- a quote I have now tracked down to the 1985 movie 'Vision Quest'
"We're born to live and then to die and we have to do it alone, each in his own way. That's why we ought to love those people who deserve it like there's no tomorrow, because when you get down to it, there isn't."
Note #2 -- pertaining to the Three Buddhist Hells (Hell of Fire, Hell of Blood, and Hell of Swords)
"The three Buddhist Hells (Fire, Blood, Swords) don't make me afraid. My first reaction on hearing of them was, 'I will forge my sword in their fire and quench it in their blood.' A Warrior's attitude, granted, but what else did you expect?"
God, I didn't realize how arrogant I was back then! Also, these Three Hells played a key role in an AD&D Team Tourney adventure that I wrote and ran at Mid-South Con in 1991.
Note #3 appears to be notes on "making a protective or warded item."
"To make a protective or warded item, begin by laying a sigil fire. The firewood should consist of equal parts of laurelwood, cypress, (cedar?) and oak, unless there is another type of wood that is especially suited to your purpose. The kindling for the fire should consist of pine needles, oak leaves, and shavings from the bark of the cedar/cypress wood."
I have no idea if this was for something related to gaming, or what. It was not written in the Roman alphabet, but in a set of runes that I used for a while when I didn't want anybody else to be able to read what I was writing. ::G:: And that's all that it says. Any further thoughts that I had on "making a protective or warded item" are leaves on the wind now.
Strange.
Note #1 -- a quote I have now tracked down to the 1985 movie 'Vision Quest'
"We're born to live and then to die and we have to do it alone, each in his own way. That's why we ought to love those people who deserve it like there's no tomorrow, because when you get down to it, there isn't."
Note #2 -- pertaining to the Three Buddhist Hells (Hell of Fire, Hell of Blood, and Hell of Swords)
"The three Buddhist Hells (Fire, Blood, Swords) don't make me afraid. My first reaction on hearing of them was, 'I will forge my sword in their fire and quench it in their blood.' A Warrior's attitude, granted, but what else did you expect?"
God, I didn't realize how arrogant I was back then! Also, these Three Hells played a key role in an AD&D Team Tourney adventure that I wrote and ran at Mid-South Con in 1991.
Note #3 appears to be notes on "making a protective or warded item."
"To make a protective or warded item, begin by laying a sigil fire. The firewood should consist of equal parts of laurelwood, cypress, (cedar?) and oak, unless there is another type of wood that is especially suited to your purpose. The kindling for the fire should consist of pine needles, oak leaves, and shavings from the bark of the cedar/cypress wood."
I have no idea if this was for something related to gaming, or what. It was not written in the Roman alphabet, but in a set of runes that I used for a while when I didn't want anybody else to be able to read what I was writing. ::G:: And that's all that it says. Any further thoughts that I had on "making a protective or warded item" are leaves on the wind now.
Strange.
