Jeff Ford’s Reviews > The Boat of a Million Years > Status Update

Good thing all runaway slaves were good victims otherwise leaving your wife and kids alone with a fugitive having thoughts of murder-suicide and holding a knife would be a bad idea. FFS!

The immortals largely are agnostic and more so the older they get. The Norse gods, Christianity, and Islam are just another religion to them. However, Easter mysticism and American Indian shamanism are treated as valid. Why?

This book is from 1989 and we have queer characters. Crazy.

Berdache is an early European designation for American Indians who did not conform to Western gender and sexual norms.

Originates from the Arabic word bardaj (“slave” or “kept boy”) and became the Spanish term bardaxa/bardaje (person engaging in sodomy) and then the French term bardache (a boy kept by a pederast). Similar to Bacha bāzī.

I wish I found this book half as interesting as I find nd the idea of this book.

Loneliness would be the toughest part of immortality. It would be very painful to see everyone die. So much must seem futile. Time keeps going faster. It must move very fast after centuries or millennia. The wisdom of centuries would be very difficult for mortals to understand. Talking to people would be explaining income taxes to toddlers.

So far I really like this book.