Off-topic re: OP blog's and domain name. These are nice and subtle nods to the tetralogy of the Book of New Sun. House Absolute is the palace of the Autarch, t

Off-topic re: OP blog's and domain name. These are nice and subtle nods to the tetralogy of the Book of New Sun. House Absolute is the palace of the Autarch, the ruler of the Commonwealth, a southern hemisphere nation in a far future when the Sun is dimmed. (If my memory serves me well...)