Possibly related to Illuminati of some sort

[mrissa]

Scientific American had a blurb for The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire, which sounds awesome to me, so I went to see if our library had it. I typed in "Secret History" in the title field, on the theory that it would amuse me to see what things had "The Secret History of" at the beginning of their titles, and I might want to read the secret history of manhole covers or rat traps.

The library's webpage gave me a page of gibberish characters I've never gotten as an error message before, and now it's pouting and refusing to let me log in at all.

Apparently There Are Some Things Man Is Not Meant To Know, or, more to the point, Some Things Man Is Not Meant To Check Out From The Library. Cue creepy music here.

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[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

Well, if anybody could find it that easily, it wouldn't be a secret for long.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Scientific American is sort of like Facebook that way: if you put something there and expect it to remain secret, You Have A Dumb.

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

Facebook: the Secret History of "Your Secret is History."

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

Obviously that is the first clue to finding the fabled Secret History of Secret Histories. Did you try ROT13 on the gibberish?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Too many non-standard characters, I'm afraid.

[arkessian.livejournal.com]

I just want you to know that it's your fault that I ordered that book.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

*shoulders the burden*

[arkessian.livejournal.com]

As I knew you would.

[sksperry.livejournal.com]

Maybe there are just some things that Mrissa is not allowed meant to know. Did you type in your security clearance first, press your thumb to the screen, and do the chicken dance?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, but a knowledgeable critic might complain that the cheep-cheep-cheep portion of my chicken dance was halfhearted at best. Also it is hard to skip in a circle by yourself with vertigo.

[sksperry.livejournal.com]

The ability to perform an adequate chicken dance is often military intelligence's prefered method to keep the riff raff out. Just saying.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh how I have fallen, from your favorite Valkyrie to riff raff.

[sksperry.livejournal.com]

You are still my favourite Valkyrie. I never much cared for Military Intelligence types--besides, not one of them can do a decent chicken dance, vertigo or no. We lose more secrets that way.

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

Valkyrie needs book badly!

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

This post is a thing of beauty.

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Retina scan is clearly required since this is the future and I'm off in my flying car in a bit. :-)
Thanks for pointing out this book - I see a book order in my future.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahaha. Actual LOLing here. I mean, I'm sorry you can't log in, but that's hilarious.

[coho29.livejournal.com]

Excellent.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

That book is so on my WANT list now.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

So, you can see here the awesome powers of those Mongol queens. Do not trifle with them! These women do not mess around.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Wish-listed.

The Mongols have long been on my list of Random Things I Don't Know Where I'm Going to Use Them But I'll Find Something.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The great thing about being a writer is you never have to say, "Now, why would I want to know that?" Because something will present itself. It is the nature of things to present themselves.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Dammit -- I was about to cite Popular Ballads of Han China on my shelves, but it seems we don't actually own that anymore. That was my favorite example of a book I had never read but might someday.

But you are most assuredly right. This is one of the things I actively love about being a writer.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Oookay then. That's creepily awesome--thanks for posting about it!

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

..that sounds _wuuunderful._