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Nissa Tolton

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    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
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  • Blog
    • Dreaming
    • LGBTQ
    • Philosophy
    • Political
    • Surveillance
    • Technology
  • Books
    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
    • Good-Bye HarajukuLove, speed, capitalism, and post-truth
    • Principle of FlocksHistorical romance, time-travel, and the metaverse
    • Titcomb’s LettersVery particular advice to young people, from 1858 onward.
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Tag: historical

The Old New Sexy
  • Blog
  • Historical

The Old New Sexy

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 9 July 202119 October 2023

There’s a new look trending, but it’s looking a lot like the old one. Where fashion and finance blurr

Rules of the Game
  • Salt Island Diaries

Rules of the Game

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 24 June 202113 June 2025

We are to make an entry each day, even if the entry is that nothing of interest happened. Secondly, we may not consult each other’s diaries. Finally, Clara is prone to exaggeration.

Tacitus on Agricola
  • Blog
  • Historical

Tacitus on Agricola

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 21 June 202130 June 2023

Roman historian Tacitus explains the policy of his father-in-law, Agricola, in bringing the comforts of Roman civilization to the barbarous British.

Model T
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Model T

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 15 June 202130 June 2023

Are we doing better than a factory worker of 1914? Let’s compare wages in the currency of Model Ts.

Principle of Flocks
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  • Principle of Flocks

Principle of Flocks

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 13 June 202111 June 2025

Principle of Flocks is a NA novel about love, alternate time-lines, and the most precious commodity in the metaverse: lucidity.

A Distant and Awesome Beacon
  • Salt Island Diaries

A Distant and Awesome Beacon

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 12 June 202112 June 2025

“If this world had angels, they would necessarily be the fleshy kind, and she would be of it.”

  • Historical
  • LGBTQ

Smashing: Women’s Relationships before the Fall

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 1 June 197923 July 2023

Intense and passionate friendships among women in the 19th century were considered normal and healthy. This was, of course, before the spectre of homosexuality ruined everything.

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  • Historical
  • LGBTQ

The Intense Friendships of Girls

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 1 July 189830 June 2023

This 1898 article is meant to make smashing sound unattractive.

  • Historical
  • Philosophy

Apology of Socrates

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 1 July 189130 June 2023

Socrates was accused of not worshiping the right gods and of corrupting Athenian youth by teaching them logical thinking. Regardless of era, the problems of being out of one’s own time are the same.

  • Historical

London Nomades

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 1 June 187730 June 2023

From ‘Street Life in London’, 1877, by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith In his savage state, whether inhabiting the marshes of Equatorial Africa, or the mountain ranges of Formosa, man…

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