[UA] Other names for unknown armies?

macbride at ucla.edu macbride at ucla.edu
Mon Feb 24 13:37:29 PST 2003


>
> Man, John and I had a bitch of a time naming the game.  I was lobbying 
> for
> "The Invisible World" (as in "Wonders of") or "Smoke and Mirrors", but 
> John
> had wood for "Unknown Armies" because it's a quote from a WB Yeats 
> poem,
> "The Valley of the Black Pig."
>

A web search turned up another work in which Yeats used the phrase 
"unknown armies": "Rosa Alchemica" (available at 
http://www.blackmask.com/books93c/rslcm.htm).  I've only glanced at it, 
but it seems VERY UA.


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