Is This the Best Lost Explanation?

Lost Finale Recap: Case Closed brings in Bardo Theory, tying it to KSR for me, which makes me like it more.

The Personal Recollections of Samuel L. Clemens

Mark Twain's 100 Year-old Autobiography Features 'Vibrating Sex Toy':

"A section of the memoir will detail his little-known but scandalous relationship with Isabel Van Kleek Lyon, who became his secretary after the death of his wife Olivia in 1904. Twain was so close to Lyon that she once bought him an electric vibrating sex toy. But she was abruptly sacked in 1909, after the author claimed she had 'hypnotised' him into giving her power of attorney over his estate.
Their ill-fated relationship will be recounted in full in a 400-page addendum, which Twain wrote during the last year of his life."

I was not aware Clemens had left 5,000 pages of memoirs with instructions not to publish until 100 years after his death.  I think the appropriate scholarly response based on the quote above may be the Spock eyebrow.

Damian Aspinall's Extraordinary Gorilla Encounter on Gorilla School

These BlackBird Embeds Can Be Thought Of As My #FFs

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FF X-Posting: Wherein I Argue (In Comments) 13 Is Too Young And Alienate My Nepalese Fanbase

Comments on this post were shut off before I could return from watching Doctor Who and press for an answer on when the poster thinks a child is old enough to decide to risk their own life for a dubious distinction.  We agree 5 is too young but he copped out of answering whether 10, 11, or 12 would be acceptable.  I think 13 is too young and there is probably some crap parenting going on in with this mountain climbing kid.  He's 13 and has already climbed several of the highest mountains in the world?  So at what age did this precocious mountaineer strike out on his own?  Or, at what age did his glory-hound-attention-seeking-too-rich-for-their-own-good-(there-I-said-it) parents start tossing him up mountains to encourage him to achieve his dreams?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_on_eight-thousanders

Even "minor" injuries are not infrequent on Everest.  Would you let your 13 year-old make the decision to take this kind of chance?

For crying out loud, risk of Yeti attack was never even raised in this discussion. Throwing that in to give myself and excuse to apply a yeti tag to this post.