And so it begins:
Bring on the eschaton!
It’s not that I want humanity to die under the relentless stranglehold of silicon-based death machines. It’s just that I love science fiction. And I, for one, bow to our new carnivorous overlords. Speaking of science fiction, this is my favorite quote of the day:
“If you look out into the long-term future and what you see looks like science fiction, it might be wrong. But if it doesn’t look like science fiction, it’s definitely wrong”
-Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute co-founder
Lately the holographic effect of everything is contained in everybit is getting a bit everywhelming. While Irish Misting the hummingbird silently hovered outside the glass, later on the swing with caffeine the buzz made a sonic presence of the unseen. The science fiction future is near guaranteed by the prolific nature of the genre’s authors, no nook unturned, everything from neanderthalic post-apocalytic to hard wired feed partying on the moon. A target so bighow could the future possibly miss it?. I go to bed with Bolano and he messes up my pastoral with the layers of people draped over Mexico City. Is the Buddha a true Visceral Realist? I wake up with 5 am looking like daylight and wonder if my biologic clock will join my mind in denial. Van Gogh supposedly stood at the tree and scrawled a note , ” I can’t go on, it’s too much, it’s impossible.” What “Terrible Lucidity” did he climb aboard at the Absinthian Busch Gardens and then regret when he found himself upside down at 88 miles an hour legs dangling. The Mad or the Masque? When the huge sky of grey clouds parts the ineffable inverted bowl of stars silently hovers outside the window of my lifespan, laterin my bed, Tequila washing on my shores of slipping consciousness, I hear them drone, a humming of cosmic proportion. I cannot see them with my face in the pillow, but I know they are there.
I think you’d like this poem.
http://exceptindreams.livejournal.com/144146.html
Well, Miss Latinski, you are correct. I like the poem. I like it a lot. Curious, though, why it made you think of me..
My favorite lines:
“But I worked
within the confines of my character, cast
as the bad boy in your life, the Magellan
of your dark side. We don’t have a past so much
as a bunch of electricity and liquor, power
never put to good use.”
I haven’t had the opportunity to meet you yet, however as a fellow science fiction enthusiast, I thought I’d tell you that several of Orson Welles books are available since their copyrights have expired here: http://www.librevox.org
Thank you, Charlie.
I will check them out. Always appreciative of a tip in the direction of good (and free) sci-fi. In return, I’ll offer this: http://www.365tomorrows.com. Some are mediocre and some are wonderful. It can become a daily addiction.