Runepowder and the Modern Gnome
This extremely wordy treatise supposes about the possibility of recreating runepowder, the mythical explosive documented in gnomish legends.] I ask my most renervated and prodigiously talented audience to suppose the following: Runepowder as we know of it may no longer exist at our particular space-time-environment, but it most absolutely exists within our minds, both singular and collective. Ah! Now we've landed upon a fascinating bit of philosophy. Think (ha!) of the following formula: thought + behaviour = action. Then why the following? Thought + idea = action. With our knowledge of runepowder's unique properties, why can we - the reader, myself, anyone with an interest, really, not manifest that which we can imagine? Consider the following...