{"id":2619,"date":"2014-10-29T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2014-10-28T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:41:34","slug":"a-preview-from-the-kerberos-club-at-patreon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2014\/10\/a-preview-from-the-kerberos-club-at-patreon\/","title":{"rendered":"A preview from the Kerberos Club at Patreon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via\u00a0http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/creation?hid=1130644<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

A preview! A shameless tease, meant to intrigue and lure with the promise of secrets to come. To wit, an excerpt of “L’Acad\u00e9mie Scientifique pour les jeunes dames,” Benjamin Baugh’s first new creation for The Kerberos Club. It concerns the Blanc sisters, twins, Ursuline nuns with astonishing gifts for comprehending the natural world. They dabbled briefly in Paris’ Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Scientifique…<\/p>\n

The sisters did not get on well with the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9\u2019s male and socially conservative leadership. To a man, of course, the leaders of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 considered themselves quite free-thinking and enlightened\u2014often ready with scientific ‘proof’ that woman is, as unarguably demonstrated by the relative weakness of limb, excitable temperament, and soft affection for children and small animals, clearly suited best for the role of wife, mother, and mistress of the domestic space. ‘Oh my,’ they said, ‘though of course we have greatest respect for such vital endeavors, we simply can not endorse such radical notions as communistic economics, equality among the sexes, or mathematical models of Q-Space transformations which exclude dimensions three through seven!’<\/p>\n

As the Paris Commune collapsed in 1871, and with their tempers still hot from rejection by France\u2019s leading society of scientific enquiry, the sisters did not rest. They founded the Scientific Academy for Young Ladies and funded it by the sale or license of several useful patents: one for the improvement of water pumps in coal mines, one for a filter to remove the stink of coal gas lamps, and one for an instrument which measured the purity and material properties of industrial metals. The sisters bought a narrow Paris row house and had the interior and cellars completely demolished and rebuilt.<\/p>\n

Les s\u0153urs Blanc searched out and recruited geniuses, girls with insights uncanny and sometimes frightening. ‘Strange’ minds for their strange school. They sought to make an explicit reality of the teacher\u2019s platitude: that training young minds can change the world.<\/p>\n

They would train minds which could each, with application of their singular talents, remake the universe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When we reach the $250 milestone we’ll share “L’Acad\u00e9mie Scientifique pour les jeunes dames” with all our Kerberan patrons.\u00a0Pledge now!<\/a><\/p>\n

Malum necessarium.<\/p>\n

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Via\u00a0http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/creation?hid=1130644. A preview! A shameless tease, meant to intrigue and lure with the promise of secrets to come. To wit, an excerpt<\/p>\n

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