game, bowie, Knight

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) game, bowie, Knight
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:58:08 -0700
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This is a very inane post on my part, but here are a few random comments:

I managed to play that Castlevania game with Terminus Est in it.  It rips o=
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all kind of fantasy literature, from Moorcock's Mourneblade to the estoc an=
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badelaire already mentioned on the list.  That's a really, really cool game=
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If you aren't wearing special glasses when you go into the "last" room, the=20
game ends halfway through. (Kind of like those uncritical readers of Wolfe =
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that rasf discussion - they weren't wearing the right mental glasses to see=20
the huge upside down castle underneath the obvious one) Now I'm trying to=20
fight the urge to start playing those stupid things again (actually, some o=
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them aren't that dumb - I remember being totally confused by some aspects o=
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Final Fantasy VII's plot (did Sephiroth die before the game even started? I=
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he just a clone then? Could Vincent be Aeris' father?), and the ending was=20
more ambiguous than Wolfe (did all the humans get wiped out? Did the heroes=20
survive in that ship?)).  I thought I kicked the video game habit in high=20
school.

Thanks for the heads up on David Bowie's endorsement, Nigel.  Now for the r=
eal=20
question: who would make a prettier woman - David Bowie or Mick Jagger?  Wh=
ile=20
I readily admit that Mick Jagger may not be an attractive fellow, I've seen=
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picture of him in drag and was taken aback by the improvement. And is there=20
really an extra "ding" in Vanilla Ice's rip off of Bowie's Under Pressure?

I haven't been able to find an obituary on Damon Knight online.  Was there =
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special, extraordinary cause of death, or simply a peaceful shuffling off?=20
Dan'l, you seem to know.  Odd that Lafferty and Knight should die in such a=20
short span of time.  Anybody have a favorite Knight work?  I like Man in th=
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Tree, and I have Humpty Dumpty but I haven't gotten around to reading it ye=
t. =20
I recall someone saying it was very "lupine".

Have a nice day, everybody.

Marc Aramini

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