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The Years of Fic and Salt
Feb. 25th, 2003 03:01 amAh, fanfic...
I am both amused and somewhat horrified. We have faltered, kids. We saw the barbarians at the gate and unlocked it in the name of fairness and democracy. Kaplen was right. A little pagen warrior chief logic could have been useful. The idea of Caesar at the gates, legions in hand is a comfortable one. Mercy is awarded by abuse.
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A bit of news. My job has become something more, leading to one which pays 60K+ and gives me 15% of the company. If everything works out, I've got that retired by 30 thing set up. If not, I at least have a better credit rating and some spiffy new electronics to go along with my new job hunt. Creepy, huh?
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Stormfreak has returned to Livejournal, if the notes from various entries are correct. Pity. I'd figured that her being left alone would have satisfied her constant rants to be left alone.
Edited post: Realized I was feeding the troll. Move along.
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Picked up the new Pratchett. Fun stuff, mostly. Pratchett really hits his stride with the Watch, telling tales of a closely hidden thriller writer in him.
Pratchett is always at his best when not working on the fantastical elements of the Discworld, but working on the human aspects. In many ways, his grip on the nature of the human condition is exceptional in it's ironicism. His look into both archatypical natures and the logical realities that shape them makes his work quasi-realistic fantasy; a method of delivering a bitter truth in a candy-coated (fantasy, easily dimissable myth) pill, dropping just the right level of awareness in a genre that is barely in snorting distance of reality.
Interesting and paradoxal, but mostly highly enjoyable.
I am both amused and somewhat horrified. We have faltered, kids. We saw the barbarians at the gate and unlocked it in the name of fairness and democracy. Kaplen was right. A little pagen warrior chief logic could have been useful. The idea of Caesar at the gates, legions in hand is a comfortable one. Mercy is awarded by abuse.
***
A bit of news. My job has become something more, leading to one which pays 60K+ and gives me 15% of the company. If everything works out, I've got that retired by 30 thing set up. If not, I at least have a better credit rating and some spiffy new electronics to go along with my new job hunt. Creepy, huh?
***
Stormfreak has returned to Livejournal, if the notes from various entries are correct. Pity. I'd figured that her being left alone would have satisfied her constant rants to be left alone.
Edited post: Realized I was feeding the troll. Move along.
***
Picked up the new Pratchett. Fun stuff, mostly. Pratchett really hits his stride with the Watch, telling tales of a closely hidden thriller writer in him.
Pratchett is always at his best when not working on the fantastical elements of the Discworld, but working on the human aspects. In many ways, his grip on the nature of the human condition is exceptional in it's ironicism. His look into both archatypical natures and the logical realities that shape them makes his work quasi-realistic fantasy; a method of delivering a bitter truth in a candy-coated (fantasy, easily dimissable myth) pill, dropping just the right level of awareness in a genre that is barely in snorting distance of reality.
Interesting and paradoxal, but mostly highly enjoyable.
