Tristero and the Muted Post-Horn
Okay, first things first: what exactly is the Tristero? Well, Shmoopers, here's a fictional history lesson. Ahem-hem-hem. The Tristero has its origins in the late sixteenth century, when an outside...
Entropy and Maxwell's Demon
The what and the what now? Okay, let's start by a getting a handle on what these two scientific concepts even are. We're going to get a little science-y; bear with us.The concept of entropy that is...
The Play-Within-the-Play: The Courier's Tragedy
About a third of the way through Lot 49, we are suddenly subjected to a ten-page plot summary of a made-up Jacobean Revenge Play called The Courier's Tragedy, allegedly written by a man named Richa...
Bordando el Manto Terrestre
Fun facts: Bordando el Manto Terrestre is a painting by Remedios Varo, a Spanish surrealist painter who was buddy-bud-buds with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Varo first fled from Spain to Paris to...