tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808484.post6070079161090956284..comments2023-10-28T07:26:09.479+01:00Comments on Les said, the better: Sound and FuryCharles Céleste Hutchinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18123138871494922485noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808484.post-1419126569551123552008-04-18T01:20:00.000+01:002008-04-18T01:20:00.000+01:00That is the best anecdote/comment to ever appear o...That is the best anecdote/comment to ever appear on this blog.<BR/><BR/>I love me the 60's sci-fi, actually. The past's concept of the future is endless fascinating. Philip K Dick has his characters say fucked up stuff like that all the time, but I think there's a crucial point in that the author knows it's completely fucked up and is using it to signify that the future is going to be worse and that the speaker is an asshole.<BR/><BR/>Some of his writing seem prophetic, alas.Charles Céleste Hutchinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18123138871494922485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808484.post-12665607042767397032008-04-17T16:52:00.000+01:002008-04-17T16:52:00.000+01:00Funny, just last night I was at this place that's ...Funny, just last night I was at this place that's a combination ice-cream parlor and vintage scifi bookstore. (Yeah, it seems like a proper Toronto hangout has to include a second, completely-unrelated function, like the coffeeshop/computer repair joint down the street from me.) <BR/><BR/>And we were plucking dreadful '60s titles like <I>The Web of Everywhere</I> off the shelves; all the authors' bios mentioned what they did in World War II, and all the protagonists spoke in three-word sentences to prove they were tough guys, and a cellphone couldn't ring without a page of exposition first, and everything was so steeped in the attitudes of <I>old people</I>. <BR/><BR/>At one point I opened a book to a random page, and a character was fretting that he just couldn't trust a Jewish banker. I flipped to the back cover, and it turns out this was a scene from the <I>twenty-sixth century</I>.<BR/><BR/>I think most people are just really shitty futurists.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10521215513401166593noreply@blogger.com