Originally published at: What is a "robinsonade?" | Boing Boing
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Robinsonade is the beverage the cannibals would have made if they had caught Crusoe.
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Wilson - if I recall correctly, in William Gibson’s Count Zero to “pull a Wilson” was a term Finn used to describe fucking up.
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Notable resistance movements across German-occupied Europe during WWII included not only the French Resistance but the Polish Resistance, Soviet partisans, and others.
“Others”…such as the Jewish partisans: the Vilner partisaner, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Book Brigade… .Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
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Robinsonades are a prime example of an exaggerated Calvinist moral concept.
Or at least the original Robinsonade is.
Just for the fun of it, three hundred years today, on 12.12.1721, Alexander Selkirk died. He apparently never was near the Calvinist role model Defoe made of him in his literary invention. The same seems to be true for Defoe (born Foe) himself…
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Ronins chasing a MacGuffin:
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