{"id":97608,"date":"2026-01-22T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=97608"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:06:47","slug":"djoan-cmell-and-the-rediscovery-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/01\/22\/djoan-cmell-and-the-rediscovery-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u2019Joan, C\u2019Mell, and the <em>Rediscovery of Man<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hmANOYOZ_o8?si=non8hnCGnivV2SVZ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 29 Aug 2025<\/p>\n<p>Cordwainer Smith, through short stories and novellas, tells a sprawling history spanning thousands of years and an entire galaxy. In this one, I&#8217;m looking at a single narrative thread of that world, the gulf between man and animal and the partnerships that make humanity whole again after a long span of cultural stagnation and loss of vitality. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n02:19 Partners and Divisions<br \/>\n05:15 Heading Down to Clown Town<br \/>\n15:53 Mans&#8217; Other Friend<br \/>\n19:22 Norstrilia<\/p>\n<p>The first month&#8217;s ad revenue from this video will be donated to 2 animal rescues. <a href=\"https:\/\/pauseforpawsaz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/pauseforpawsaz.com\/<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGtra3JGNXVRbzBPZ3ZUWjFpZHk2STIwREpMZ3xBQ3Jtc0tsUkNWcGhHN2xLZFB6cURmajJ6R1owbWpiV1JtRUZMU0pvU1JDckdHbnQxYmZXTzBocXBEUGd0Z1ZtcWNrUVZaSHBEWEU4MWl4VjFFbnNYcXNLTlRqZ2MyNG1COFpWZmw1dzNIS2ZtdEhHYXdmNUJqNA&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fcatallianceteam%2Fhome&#038;v=hmANOYOZ_o8\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/catalli&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 New Merch!  | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\nObligatory plug for <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and now on Kobo<br \/>\nkobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/ninti-s-gate?sId=f30f9d90-907a-449a-aeab-7b25215297f1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 29 Aug 2025 Cordwainer Smith, through short stories and novellas, tells a sprawling history spanning thousands of years and an entire galaxy. In this one, I&#8217;m looking at a single narrative thread of that world, the gulf between man and animal and the partnerships that make humanity whole again after a long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[473,1593,139,85],"class_list":["post-97608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-cats","tag-feralhistorian","tag-psychology","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pok","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97609,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97608\/revisions\/97609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}