tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post266104571647383375..comments2024-02-24T19:42:39.876+05:30Comments on Bill the Butcher: The Abode Of ShaytanBill the Butcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436195659154078021noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post-89101341726956182852017-11-20T05:15:39.014+05:302017-11-20T05:15:39.014+05:30Bill,
Excellent ending.Bill,<br />Excellent ending.Kronkats Kornerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15356981317059108859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post-45826236647852796842017-11-14T08:34:31.867+05:302017-11-14T08:34:31.867+05:30Clark Ashton Smith was fond of ancient underground...Clark Ashton Smith was fond of ancient underground temples like this in his writing. I'm not a huge fan of Lovecraft, but I am a fan of the horror writers of that era generally. So I always like it when you write something that treads on that area. I can't do it myself - it always seems too laughably pretentious when I try and pull it off.Harry Hamidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13176265571549991218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post-88957357386575835702017-11-13T12:59:39.986+05:302017-11-13T12:59:39.986+05:30Another great story.
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Noms de guerre. For Ara...Another great story.<br /><br />***<br /><br />Noms de guerre. For Arabs, the name 'Abu' is reserved as an honorific for older men, at least old enough to be a father, and so would not be a nom de guerre for a teenager. If one is not using 'Abu' as a nom de guerre, it must be the name of one's oldest son.<br /><br />I knew an Arab who married late in life, and figured he needed to start calling himself 'Abu' to impress potential customers, so he called himself 'Abu Hassan,' where Hassan was his father's name, not his son's, but his customers didn't know that, and the name stuck: even after his first son, Fahd, was born, he retained the (incorrect) name 'Abu Hassan'.<br /><br />Of course, if one is creating a nom de guerre, one calls oneself 'Abu xxxx', where 'xxxx' is a name that is neither one's own, nor that of any of one's children, nor grandchildren, nor father, nor grandfather, just to throw off the evil kufr and murtadd. But (I think) one must still be past one's teens before one can use an 'Abu' nom de guerre (a teenager would just pick some name not his own, without the 'Abu').<br /><br />MichaelWmeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com