Philology: The Real Professional Bag of Tricks (short story)

Philology: The Real Professional Bag of Tricks was the fifth story in the anthology Stranger Tales of the City. It was written by James Bojaciuk.

Summary

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Tolkien insisted the historical Jesus Christ the media speaks of is a fraud, from an entirely different area of the world.
Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida attended Aemos' discussion at the University of the Seven Ages. They made no attempt to help him.

The Jama'a absorbed The Lord of the Rings into their myth cycle.
Tolkien was concerned by infinitesimal errors the Jama'a committed in retelling his work (the hobbits did not possess pink dye; the translation of elvish was poor). He did not understand why someone would be concerned about how he'd take the hobbits being played by African men, and directed them to the notes on Hobbits in the beginning of The Fellowship of the Rings. The majority of hobbits--and, indeed, the hobbits who set out on the Ring Quest--were black.
Charles Dickens' novels were no longer illustrated.

Aemos was forced to speak at The University of the Seven Ages (PROSE: The Socratic Problem).
The Jama'a were situated on a ship in RealSpace (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...).

The Jama'a civilization was killed and replaced by Sentient oil. Sentient oil beings were not sufficiently human to resurrect in the City.

Victoria Waterfield also worked under the name "V.M. McCrimmon" in (PROSE: Postscript).