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short story fame and funny quotes

2003-05-05 - 6:30 p.m.

BF's story "The Passage Home" was voted to the front page of http://www.kuro5hin.org yesterday afternoon. It's a far future story that, to me, has a feel of the better Asimov stuff. People keep saying the most flattering things in the "comments" section that follows the story.

drifting around diaryland...

There are always a grab bag of quotes to be found at the squirrelx diary, and yesterday's entry provided some entertainment.

Squirrelx: "Not everybody is accustomed to paranormal activity takin' place while they're sittin' on the crapper."
Can't argue with that. Another provocative quote was:

St. Augustine: "Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe."
Too true. People do tend to see what they believe, but if Augustine means to suggest that this is necessarily a good thing, he is quite mistaken. Some beliefs are, let's face it, more conducive to the quiet life than others. If I believe in the Space Brothers, then I am more likely to get involved in cults or therapies that recover "memories" of being probed on UFOs. If I believe in Satan, the therapist will discover memories of Satanic abuse. If I believe that a stumbling, drug-addled idiot is a kind and good leader with my best interests at heart, he remains an idiot and I become one as well. Or, as Crowley put it, "If I drink poison and call it wine, I still die."

in the news...

According to Fox News, Jessica Lynch has very sensibly said that she has complete amnesia of anything that happened between the attack on her convoy and her "rescue." No TV network will be suing this gal for fraud if and when some inconvenient proof emerges that the whole story was less heroic than reported. The British press has already stated that the claimed rescue was staged -- hospital workers say that they tried to return Lynch previously and were fired upon for their trouble, so they simply took her back to the unguarded hospital and continued to attempt to treat her. But, not to worry, Mr. Rove, there are numbers of unnamed Pentagon officials who will be working "with" Ms. Lynch to assist her in "recovering" the proper memories.

It can't be any more difficult than assisting someone in "recovering" memories of being abducted by the Space Brothers.

if anyone is reading this...

...then for the love of all the little green gods, get thee to either kuro5hin.org and read "The Passage Home," or check out the squirrelx diary here on diaryland, or bookmark and read them both. There is an awful lot of good reading out there on the net these days.

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