giants and magic gems and dudes wearing all black

Son of Witz · 28 Nov 2008, 18:06 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:06:40 +0000
Subject: (urth) giants and magic gems and dudes wearing all black
Message-ID: <W953554477262961227895600@webmail22>


>> what a glorious mess that would have been.
>
>  The Lynch work was a mess, though not that glorious.  I liked the
>achieved atmosphere of baroque decadence, but felt that the core of
>the original work was lost completely, not just that they simplified
>into childish literalism the messiahnic role of the lead, but that the
>missed that the core of the thematic threads was the mental and
>physical improvement of man, by changing the Atreides avantage to a
>scifi-ish kind of weaponry instead of a superior system of mental and
>physicial conditioning.

that's exactly how I feel about it.
especially changing the mental/physical conditioning to a sound weapon.
lamo.


>
>> y'all read The Incal? killer stuff.
>
>  Sadly, not in complete form.

while it's not up to snuff with Wolfe, it's a damn good read. some of the alchemical imagery is made manifest in frightfully obvious (and cool) ways.

~witz

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