It seems appropriate, given the intent of this record of the strange little surreal things in life, that we begin with an observation a friend of mine once made:
History is not alwys penned by the victor. Look at Khublai Khan and the Mongols: because they had no indigenous script (layman's terms - they were all illiterate), they commissioned the recently-conquered Uygurs to invent a Mongol script. This became known as Phags-pa, and was used to write the history of the Mongols. The moral of this entry: history isn't always written by the victors. History is often by those we spare.
posted by Phillip at 2:40 PM
