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tamiam:
I always post more comments than I get; this doesn't seem weird to me, partly because I'm doing a lot of straightforward "today's exercise numbers"-type posts, and partly because I spent a lot of years in apas where I mostly wrote mailing comments.
I'm the one who pulls out the reference books to reply to an LJ acquaintance who says there's no plural of "eschaton"--thoughladysisyphus replied to that comment--and explains pet microchipping when someone asks in a community.
Toyonmei, who asked for an imaginary memory of time spent with her:
You convinced me that a mountain that high was just like an airplane, so I wouldn't mind the heights.... A breeze blew down from the glacier as we lay on the wildflowers in an alpine meadow, smoking hashish, drinking mangoes, and making love. It was beautiful, and then the eagle joined us. Oh, what the two of you did with those feathers!
How was I to know that golden eagles are allergic to mango?
Along the same lines, tocoyotegoth:
I was in Paris for a week, and got to the Rodin Museum before it opened, so I'd have plenty of time and no crowding.
And there you were, selling postcards of Barcelona and insisting on addressing me in Aramaic, a language neither of us knows. I still have that picture of Sagrada Familia, addressed to someone in Belgrade.
Writing noodling about a possible sf background, in response torysmiel, who suggested a future "in which the Rapture is a centuries-old historical footnote that served to winnow the human species of some of its most reactionary members and made progress ever so much easier":
I'm not enough up on (yet in some ways too much up on) the Christian mythos to be able to use that: I'm not sure how you'd get the Rapture without the end of the world, but I do remember that according to the books (as distinct from the "say nice things to/about our virtuous selves" version) there's supposed to be a thousand years of suffering before the Rapture.
Hm. Lots of Believers swept off a badly damaged Earth, and then the space colonists have to decide whether to try to return/rescue people/rehabilitate the planet?
tamiam:I always post more comments than I get; this doesn't seem weird to me, partly because I'm doing a lot of straightforward "today's exercise numbers"-type posts, and partly because I spent a lot of years in apas where I mostly wrote mailing comments.
I'm the one who pulls out the reference books to reply to an LJ acquaintance who says there's no plural of "eschaton"--though
ladysisyphus replied to that comment--and explains pet microchipping when someone asks in a community.To
yonmei, who asked for an imaginary memory of time spent with her:You convinced me that a mountain that high was just like an airplane, so I wouldn't mind the heights.... A breeze blew down from the glacier as we lay on the wildflowers in an alpine meadow, smoking hashish, drinking mangoes, and making love. It was beautiful, and then the eagle joined us. Oh, what the two of you did with those feathers!
How was I to know that golden eagles are allergic to mango?
Along the same lines, to
coyotegoth:I was in Paris for a week, and got to the Rodin Museum before it opened, so I'd have plenty of time and no crowding.
And there you were, selling postcards of Barcelona and insisting on addressing me in Aramaic, a language neither of us knows. I still have that picture of Sagrada Familia, addressed to someone in Belgrade.
Writing noodling about a possible sf background, in response to
rysmiel, who suggested a future "in which the Rapture is a centuries-old historical footnote that served to winnow the human species of some of its most reactionary members and made progress ever so much easier":I'm not enough up on (yet in some ways too much up on) the Christian mythos to be able to use that: I'm not sure how you'd get the Rapture without the end of the world, but I do remember that according to the books (as distinct from the "say nice things to/about our virtuous selves" version) there's supposed to be a thousand years of suffering before the Rapture.
Hm. Lots of Believers swept off a badly damaged Earth, and then the space colonists have to decide whether to try to return/rescue people/rehabilitate the planet?
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