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Miscellaneous
Nov. 13th, 2007 09:30 amMy back's still hurting, so I called in sick. I think I'll spend a good bit of the day soaking in the tub.
The dogs dug into the canned food without hesitation last night, so that's one less worry.
I remember reading Heinlein's The Past Through Tomorrow with delight way back when, so, when I saw The Green Hills of Earth at Borders, comprising the middle third of the anthology, I snapped it up. Having reread it, now, I'm a little disappointed. The stories are pretty ordinary, with the possible exception of "Logic of Empire". And did he have to twice resort to heroic deaths from radiation poisoning? ("The Long Watch" and "The Green Hills of Earth" both end that way, although the nature of the heroism is different.)
I'm probably the last reader of Ringworld to notice the parallel between Louis Wu's defiance of Speaker-To-Animals in the restaurant ("you cannot dominate him through fear") and his defiance of Nessus over using the tasp on Prill (you cannot dominate him through pleasure, either).
The famous version of "California Dreamin'", by the Mamas and the Papas, includes the following lines:
Ah, well. Soak time.
The dogs dug into the canned food without hesitation last night, so that's one less worry.
I remember reading Heinlein's The Past Through Tomorrow with delight way back when, so, when I saw The Green Hills of Earth at Borders, comprising the middle third of the anthology, I snapped it up. Having reread it, now, I'm a little disappointed. The stories are pretty ordinary, with the possible exception of "Logic of Empire". And did he have to twice resort to heroic deaths from radiation poisoning? ("The Long Watch" and "The Green Hills of Earth" both end that way, although the nature of the heroism is different.)
I'm probably the last reader of Ringworld to notice the parallel between Louis Wu's defiance of Speaker-To-Animals in the restaurant ("you cannot dominate him through fear") and his defiance of Nessus over using the tasp on Prill (you cannot dominate him through pleasure, either).
The famous version of "California Dreamin'", by the Mamas and the Papas, includes the following lines:
Stopped into a churchAmerica did a (musically quite different) cover, substituting "began" for "pretend". Rather odd....
I passed along the way
Well I got down on my knees
And I pretend to pray
Ah, well. Soak time.
