Lancelot Schaubert of Little Egypt
A space for reflection here in the Merlin timeline
Lancelot Schaubert here — author, filmmaker, poet, songwriter, budding thinker, chaplain to artists, serial cereal eater (when it’s in the house), chaotic good lemur born and raised in Illinois, D-train and MTA Hudson line addict, spurner of professional bios, and rearer of free range trees. You know, Ents and huorns.
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Why Substack?
I want a place to engage more consistently with all of you as well as to interact and interface directly with other creators and thinkers. I’ll be using this space for more reflective thoughts, longer riffs on ideas, finished compositions and films, etc. I roped in
to help cover philosophy. I may rope in more creators, contributors, that sort of thing. If you already have a Memberful account or patronize us elsewhere, your paid subscription should be grandfathered in — thanks for having our back this long. If we grow the subscriber base, I may serialize future novels here.Why Lancelot of Little Egypt?
We might change the name. For now, I aspire to heroic virtue and the folks I admire in history who have done so bore names like Francis of Assisi and Lancelot du Lac. I grew up in Little Egypt (see also the subtitle of my debut novel), I live in New York City, and my name’s Lancelot. It works okay.
But also…
I’m a bit of a jack of all trades who maintains some medieval sensibilities. Don’t get me wrong. I belong to my own age, I think we can’t move past modern thinkers who revealed the interpenetration of the subjective and objective, and there are certain scientific and mathematical truths we can’t unlearn.
Yet in terms of grounding our ideas — of the logic, rhetoric, and grammar of them — much of it seems to me to be rooted in the Middle Ages.
So “Lancelot of Little Egypt’s reflections in the Merlin Timeline” seems appropriate. I’m aging backwards, in a way.
What will this space publish?
Some of that’s up to you who have partnered with me and supported my journey so far. Interviews for sure because I love deference. I know I’ll want to think deeply about the logic, rhetoric, and grammar behind the big ideas of today’s and yestermillennium’s sciences, humanities, and schools of worldviews. It’ll be rooted in myth and philosophy (because I am), it’ll share works of culture in fiction, poetry, film, and music (because I make them), and it’ll be indiscriminately connected to all of the parts of my life like economics and business as often as reviews of what I’m watching, what I’m listening to, and what I’m reading (because I contain multitudes).
It’s a garden. It’ll grow as you water it. Subscribers will be able to comment, but Founding Members will have the exclusive power to start new threads in the chat.
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Also, I got saucy with the referrals.
3 referrals and you’ll get 3 months free plus a free novel and a free album
7 referrals and you’ll get access to the private discord plus the above.
101 referrals and you’ll get a 2 hour consultation over Zoom or FaceTime with me + a signed hardback of a book of mine. That’s easily a $300+ value — a prime number of the Dalmatian variety seemed appropriate for the goal. I’m bring it down if that seems impossible after some time.
But I’ll remind you that many of the people who read this play video and board games hard. They’re competitive. So the leaderboard for referrals will be fierce. I recommend getting a head start while you still can:
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As the substack grows, I might even bifurcate it further into film / music / literature so that you can hyper focus on your interests. Right now, I don’t see the need to do that until we see what it will look like.
— Lancelot
