<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://austerlitz.dev/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://austerlitz.dev/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en" /><updated>2026-09-20T19:03:09+08:00</updated><id>https://austerlitz.dev/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Musings of an amateur historian</title><subtitle>Musings of an amateur historian</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Why are the ghosts racist?</title><link href="https://austerlitz.dev/blog/2026/why-are-the-ghosts-racist/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Why are the ghosts racist?" /><published>2026-09-03T02:42:00+08:00</published><updated>2026-09-03T02:42:00+08:00</updated><id>https://austerlitz.dev/blog/2026/why-are-the-ghosts-racist</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://austerlitz.dev/blog/2026/why-are-the-ghosts-racist/"><![CDATA[<p>They say only the Chinese can see Chinese ghosts,<br />
They say only the Malay can see Malay ghosts,<br />
They say only the Indians can see Indian ghosts,<br />
So I asked the only Indian ghost who bothered to walk up to me,<br />
Why has god made the ghosts racists as well?<br />
He stubbed his cigarette with his cold breath and said to me,<br />
It’s all in your imagination and pointed out it was past my bedtime.</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="literature" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[An anonymous tombstone being my muse]]></summary></entry></feed>