"My husband complains about the cold," the man said.
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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
Oh, who the heck is it I saw recently—oh, right: Virginia Postrel's The Fabric of Civilization
Riffing on Clarke's famous dictum: "Any sufficiently common technology is indistinguishable from nature."
Brought to you in a roundabout way by (grossly oversimplified) Hank Green stepping in it wrt knitting on a podcast. Marvelous conversation here:
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Reminds me of Ify Nwadiwe on Very Important People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Important_People_(2023_TV_series)
It's a show where comedians are given a costume and have to improvise a talk show interview in character
His costume was an alien and he keeps describing mundane things as alien technology
I'm trying to stay off YouTube today bc #GeneralStrike, so let's see if I can get this to embed properly:
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@MicroSFF okay but FR, knitting and textile work in general is magic. arguably the most important technology after fire and language and possibly even before sharp stone. to say that our civilisation is built on fabric is an understatement, because even pre-civilisation societies were built on fabric.
knitting is actual magic.
I could even be argued that all of our current tech is, in one form or another, based on textiles. See the discussion in the attatched vid. The referenced book is interesting, too.
In the book, the author actually references "simple" string bags as being a seminal innovation. (& also a lot more labor intensive than you'd think.)
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I could even be argued that all of our current tech is, in one form or another, based on textiles. See the discussion in the attatched vid. The referenced book is interesting, too.
In the book, the author actually references "simple" string bags as being a seminal innovation. (& also a lot more labor intensive than you'd think.)
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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
@MicroSFF LOVE IT!
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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
@MicroSFF Directed right at my yarn obsessed heart 🧶
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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
I think I love you now. 🧶
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I could even be argued that all of our current tech is, in one form or another, based on textiles. See the discussion in the attatched vid. The referenced book is interesting, too.
In the book, the author actually references "simple" string bags as being a seminal innovation. (& also a lot more labor intensive than you'd think.)
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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
@MicroSFF
that's awesomea bit more on the nose than some may imagine
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@MicroSFF okay but FR, knitting and textile work in general is magic. arguably the most important technology after fire and language and possibly even before sharp stone. to say that our civilisation is built on fabric is an understatement, because even pre-civilisation societies were built on fabric.
knitting is actual magic.
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I could even be argued that all of our current tech is, in one form or another, based on textiles. See the discussion in the attatched vid. The referenced book is interesting, too.
In the book, the author actually references "simple" string bags as being a seminal innovation. (& also a lot more labor intensive than you'd think.)
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