Who likes secluded places?

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Yeah, I think we've been almost literally everywhere. But Lake Vostok does offer some hope! You just have to be the first one in; as long as it doesn't explosively decompress like they're afraid it will and blow a big crater out of Antarctica.



Unfortunately no, nothing that interesting; I'm only another North-American Euro-mutt. Half Dutch in fact. I just meant "we" as in humans, broadly speaking. I don't know if descendants of the Beothuk have made it to all parts yet either, but you have me wanting to read about them!

When I read the sequel of The Time Machine by Baxter, in which the time traveller and his Morlock buddy with this long name that started with an "n" get trapped by the Constructors and condemned to live in a small flat on the top of a tower in the world of eternal winter, I thought:"great, I would love to get locked up by them in it but on this condition that I'd get delivered all goods possible - all books and movies and modelling pastas and games and comics and luxurious goods (the Paperblanks diaries, in which I could write down my experiences, for example or diamond jewellery) and basically anything you can buy in stores in our century and generally books on all countries that exist now and items coming from them. Like: you know: I'd have a small flat and there would be a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE store, containing all the things, like such a superhuge store the size of Rwanda, next to it (they had the total control of molecular matter like the folks from Diaspar), to which I could go any time I'd need something from it. I'd have anything I'd want to - like: I want to collect porcelain dolls - I bring them to my flat to put them on my shelves; rebuilt on the basis of real dolls from my own time; I want to learn something on Nepal and its culture - I go to the store, in which the books on this country are waiting for me; I get to like the medieval age - I go to the store to bring myself some books, movies and the like. I'd want to get access to something like the Holodec - such a form of playing games, like you know, playing the sagas in the city of Diaspar, you get it, yes? I recently played Dark Fall 3 and I think it would be great to go to the Dowerton hotel in person to bring items from one location to another one with my own hands and not just by clicking on them. I'd ask my Constructors to built a new body for myself - the body of the most beautiful woman I could think of, immortal and non aging and not needing any sort of rest, food, sleep etc. And I'd ask them to do something with the windows showing the desolated world of eternal winter - the windows would show an artificial world of my own liking, changing once every week. I like this fantasy

Or such a time loop like in Miss Peregrine's house for peculiar kids - do you know this novel?

i [as a wee lad] use to like to take a blanket from bed and drape it over a little table to make a sort of tent, and i would bring with me a little lamp and a radio and books and go "hide" in there, it was a lot of fun