It’s happening, and like actual birth, things can get complicated, which they are now. That greatly cuts back my time to post, though I promise some new stuff will come once this difficult birth is over and done with.
Hang in there!
He knew our nightmares, and how to make them more terrifyingly real than reality itself. I can still remember that gremlin on the plane wing.
The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) is now at 290, the highest it’s ever been. It’s turning into Stephen King’s The Mist, and if monsters from another reality start attacking it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
Although Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring put it much more poetically:
“It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this.
“It is folly.”
— Boromir
Read this article and had to share it. I love me some Star Wars, know Han shot first and can quote A New Hope as well as the next guy. But this analysis of the prequels is way deeper — and more troubling — than I thought.
“Surely, the Sith were evil. However, despite an alleged moral dichotomy, so were the Jedi. Our recognition of their error makes it difficult to regard them as heroes and thus care about their plight. In the end, the teachings of the Jedi led directly to Anakin’s fall and the galaxy’s plunge into darkness. Perhaps that’s a large part of the reason we don’t care for their story that much.”
Will be off on a freediving trip for the weekend, but I’ll try and pen down some thoughts to post when I get back. In the meantime, what books are the best company on long, long bus rides?
I’ve got my own selection loaded in my phone, which I’ll try out on the trip up. See you next week!
The Journeyman Bookbuilder 