If I were an academic…

Most projects I start, end quite quickly. Inspiration must be found immediately to translate into something worth doing. Otherwise its tossed in the mental bin. For several months, my intention was to read the LBB’s in detail and try to produce at least something of an opinion. The scribbled notes are as chaotic as the source material. Mostly the bits indicate, ‘ahh, that’s where that started’ followed shortly by a number of things marginally related to the original thought.

The realization nothing will come of the effort is not new. The notes sat patiently. Words on paper feel no rush to be consumed. They just are. Weeks later, I realized those words were lists. Annotations of tables and charts looking for an outlet. My pen wasn’t about to expose new knowledge. The words themselves were the discovery.

What to do with them? Hide them again under a pile of other paper? Nay, they were to be hidden amid other letters. I loved word search puzzles as a kid. The same era when the original tomes were scribed into lists. So I began something and while it can never be complete, thirty weeks of word search puzzles begin on Wednesday. The first 17 are derived directly from the LBB’s. Thirteen more were extracted from Greyhawk – Supplement I.