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I thought it DID sound like a spider. Ugh. Spiders. Ugh. Adam…
19 Mar 2009, 17:31
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That actually wasn't the one I was thinking of. There sure is a lot of transgressive sex in AtD. Even for Pynchon. Adam…
18 Mar 2009, 21:30
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What I meant was, can we conclude that Urth is the future of Earth, and not its past? (yeah, I guess we probably can) Adam…
18 Mar 2009, 21:11
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Are we sure it's the past? Adam…
18 Mar 2009, 20:14
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This only sort of gently stroked my mind, largely with the back of its fingernails. It was the part about Swamp Thing that blew my mind. Now my mind needs a refractory period. …
18 Mar 2009, 19:46
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There were several funny kinky sex scenes in AtD. I know which one I would pick. Adam…
18 Mar 2009, 19:41
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I did. I was attempting not to dignify it with a response. Adam…
18 Mar 2009, 19:21
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The decades of the Good Life might be worth the last few years on the inside. It's at least plausible that it's a rational trade. Was he dumb? That's for him to say. Or, he…
18 Mar 2009, 18:50
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To be fair, the pedophilia and the scat S&M scenes are actually two DIFFERENT ones. Not, I suppose, that I'm doing a good job of selling _GR_. Adam…
18 Mar 2009, 18:39
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I find there's a reason to care. YMMV. Adam…
18 Mar 2009, 18:38
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Bernie Madoff always struck me as a rather smart man. Adam…
18 Mar 2009, 18:37
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Don't forget Pynchon! Adam…
18 Mar 2009, 18:12
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Yes. Adam…
18 Mar 2009, 16:03
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The East is Red. Adam…
18 Mar 2009, 16:01
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Awwww. I was going to get all excited that Gene Wolfe says it's cool to torture people to impress the ladies. Gotcher Two Apricots right here.... Adam…
17 Mar 2009, 17:21
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"Cybele" sounds vaguely like "Seawrack". I think the Magna Mater explanation is likely to be the right one. Adam…
17 Mar 2009, 13:48
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I myself am pretty much a Second Amendment fundamentalist. Guns are extraordinarily useful tools for putting holes in things a long way away. Like all powerful tools, they ca…
17 Mar 2009, 13:45
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"Silk Spectre" sounds sort of like "Seawrack" if you're even drunker. Adam…
17 Mar 2009, 02:05
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"Seawrack" sounds *sort of * like "Shoggoth" if you're drunk. Adam…
16 Mar 2009, 23:56
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This summer. Orchestra pit, 4th row: http://www.fsf.net/~adam/TomWaits20080626/ Adam…
23 Jan 2009, 00:20
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Awww shit. There are other Tom Waits fans here? This shouldn't be a surprise to me, should it? He's right up there in my pantheon with Wolfe and Pynchon. Adam…
22 Jan 2009, 23:48
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The sled? Maybe it's a coin-operated toilet. Adam…
21 Jan 2009, 23:33
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No. Obviously it's Rosebud. Which is a euphemism for "anus." Because the whole thing is just ONE BIG POOP JOKE. QED. Adam…
21 Jan 2009, 22:02
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A stockyard could be considered a thriving colony of cattle. Adam…
21 Jan 2009, 20:42
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Did you see the Naked Civil Servant (in which he played Quentin Crisp), or (and this was the one I was thinking of) _I, Claudius_, in in which he played Caligula. He can *do* …
15 Jan 2009, 18:40
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I stick by my casting of Anna-Nicole Smith, as the (even-more) artificial Monroe. Adam…
15 Jan 2009, 02:13
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YES YES YES. The Autarch: John Hurt from _I, Claudius_. Jolenta, post-glamour: mid-period Anna-Nicole Smith. It's not quite right for Thecla, but totally-hot-period (e.g. _Blue …
15 Jan 2009, 02:12
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He *is* described as a Guest on Earth on the very first page, and we *do* have a title for the book, you know. Now: if we take "Freedom" to be a stand-in for "Evil"--what does t…
08 Jan 2009, 17:01
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It's easy to read as a straight-up fluffy no-depth pulp adventure. Adam…
07 Jan 2009, 17:26
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I am suddenly very afraid. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/06/driving.obama/index.html?eref=rss_topstories It's a big black car. "And it will fix you a latte if you ask"…
06 Jan 2009, 21:41
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I take exception. Even apart from polygynous cases, it strikes me that this could be a magnificent theme for a story, and one that I'm sure has been done (indeed, it's done in…
05 Jan 2009, 19:14
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FWIW, I dug it highly too. Admittedly, the roll-around-in-steaming- piles-of-allusions isn't as magical to me as it was in high school, and these days Jasper Fforde does that r…
30 Dec 2008, 19:07
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What can change the nature of a man? Oops. I got my Planescape: Torment in your Gene Wolfe. Adam…
22 Dec 2008, 02:46
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I'm NOT GOING TO MAKE A JOKE ABOUT "Getting his rocks off." OH CRAP. Adam…
19 Dec 2008, 21:12
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Well, pretty much. Hugos are voted on by fandom (specifically, Worldcon members). Which does mean that a) a lot of people had to have read it, and b) a lot of people had to h…
19 Dec 2008, 04:50
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I just remembered C.J. Cherryh's _Sunfall_. Adam…
18 Dec 2008, 17:04
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I, er, might be able to help. I did my Master's minor concentration in something my advisor and I agreed not to call "Renaissance Weird Shit." It's all a bit fuzzy now, of cour…
18 Dec 2008, 00:13
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Yes. Adam…
15 Dec 2008, 17:27
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Clark Ashton Smith? Those are more, uh, prequels, of course. Adam…
15 Dec 2008, 15:44
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I'm reminded of the Mormon claim that Jesus spent some of the Missing Years in America. Also, of course, the fairy-story trope of rulers switching kingdoms for a year and a da…
11 Dec 2008, 19:45
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Don't forget Doctor Girlfriend! Adam…
10 Dec 2008, 15:03
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Well, you know, everyone likes to be at the top of the map.....perhaps the Ascians, and the trans-Ascians, put Erebus at the North Pole. Or maybe It is in fact just the eponymou…
09 Dec 2008, 23:37
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s/tiv/lvi/; Adam…
08 Dec 2008, 18:31
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It could be the python, or it could be the medicine cabinet. Myrrh? Grain alcohol? Sativa? Cannabis? Other worlds? import antigravity; Adam…
08 Dec 2008, 18:29
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One is reminded of: http://www.xkcd.com/353/ Adam…
08 Dec 2008, 17:24
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I wish to buy that book. Adam…
05 Dec 2008, 16:06
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Is there such a list? Because, well, *I'd* hang out there. Adam…
04 Dec 2008, 21:03
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Er, Pancreator, or Increate. I'm getting too Jung for this. Adam…
04 Dec 2008, 21:02
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I thought the Angel and the Eagle showed us that holy servants also merely guess at the Increator's wishes, same as us chickens. Adam…
04 Dec 2008, 20:27
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I should clarify: if you don't mind Young Adult, _The Tombs of Atuan_ (Earthsea #2) is really magnificent. I thought for a long time after reading _The Amber Spyglass_ that, "…
26 Nov 2008, 19:15
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