Explicit content is only for very occasional, semi-accidental cursing.
Notes
The bridge paradox from Kant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg
Harry Potter as a Sacred Text website: http://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/
The Hugenots and the general idea of Hospitality as a cultural thang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitality#Ancient_Greece, and also the first teaser for Harry Potter as a Sacred Text.
Definition of Chthonic: Adjective. Concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld.
Articles
I feel like I will bring up this article on Puerto Rico as a way into the collapse game again: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/us/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-coping.html
Polar Bear Project: https://projects.oregonlive.com/projectnora/1-3/series
Books
Xenophon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Thousand
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Redwall books as a counterpoint to Watership Down, by Brian Jacques
Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
Campaigns of Alexander the Great by Arian
We name drop Agatha Christie novels like the Poirot series, specifically Murder on the Orient Express
Games
Scotland Yard
Mysterium
Complicated Board Game the Card Game (the game that's all about setting it up)
Illuminati
Fluxx
Munchkin