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- From: miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michael Turner nmscore Assoc.)
- Subject: Re: Purity
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.182920.12512@tcsi.com>
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- Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
- References: <1993Jan11.200356.28074@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1993Jan12.022215.11913@tcsi.com> <93012.023930SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:29:20 GMT
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- In article <93012.023930SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >>[Mike]...<deleted>
-
- >If I might my opinions speak from in, I neither think nor
- >label so; 'tis none so sweeping as 'ok', but some small
- >judgement concerning how fast the one on conclusions forms.
-
- Hey, Graydon, you ever see "House of Games"? Great David Mamet play,
- made into a pretty good movie. (But *don't* go see "Reservoir Dogs",
- ugh, rivers of blood!)
-
- >Gods rot your socks, a rant that wasn't, nor came it even close;
- >if I a-ranting go, as strive me to refrain me from I do, it's more
- >the case that I will half a dozen screens go on than but half of
- >one!
-
- You know, I think "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" was Tom
- Stoppard at his peak -- a kind of early deconstruction of Shakespeare,
- when you think about it. Never saw it on stage, unfortunately.
-
- >Someone who is, to my mind, sufficently failing in politeness to
- >ask me a 'what are you?' question in the first place can be justly
- >expected to put up with having their chain lightly tugged on.
-
- Sometimes I just want to curl up with a Raymond Chandler novel.
- Anyone ever notice how much Chandler indirectly influenced William
- Gibson?
-
- >Nor do I stick people who splutter, accuse me of being a wiseass,
- >or otherwise react negatively, in a bin of any description. They
- >do acquire a 'doesn't like me not ussing the social rules they're
- >familiar with' label, but tied on, not glued on. They could be
- >having a bad day or have a five year old, gods know.
-
- Or maybe I'm really thinking of Damon Runyan. You know, he really
- caught the poetry of the American petty hood class.
-
- >Sir, what would you me have signified? To but disagree you go on
- >long, and long.
-
- You know what I think is the most underappreciated Heinlein novel?
- You'll never guess. I think it's _Glory Road_. Long build-up that
- follows an almost-anti-hero through a stint in South East Asia
- during the ramp-up of the Vietnam War, then to various ports of
- call in the world, then suddenly plopping him into a great send-up of
- E.R. Burroughs' hokey old Mars novels, spoofing every fantasy
- genre you can think of. The contrast is bracing.
-
- >Asked for reasons, I gave them; maybe these your reasons aren't, nor
- >to your practices in accordance, but what bond should I have to any
- >custom but my own?
-
- Hey, what's with Samuel Delany, anyway? Seems like I've been waiting
- for his sequel to "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" for TEN
- YEARS. I guess he's got a lot of academic responsibilities now,
- but really, a promise is a promise.
-
- >I will own I go on long, more oft than not; a result it is of being
- >much accused of loading metaphors until they if not break bog down,
- >and being in my accustomed thought maintaining precepts less like
- >(it seems) those whom I speak with hold than I would enjoin them be,
- >if such ordering was mine to use.
-
- Has anyone here read David Leavitt's _The Secret Language of Cranes_?
- Pretty awesome stuff for a guy his age. Oh, sure, Truman Capote
- wrote _Breakfast at Tiffany's_ when he was, what, seventeen or something?
- But THEN where did he go? DOWNHILL! Leavitt's getting stronger
- all the time. I'd watch this guy.
-
- >I'm 'Them' to most, and home with none, and this road also my
- >speach has run; it's not just les, or bi, or gay, whom their words
- >might self betray to one or many whom regard all difference best dead.
-
- On second thought, maybe Tom Stoppard is just a little too gimmicky
- for real immortality. Have to think about that one.
-
- >Graydon
- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >saundrsg@ "Praise then Darkness and Creation unfinished"
- > qucdn.queensu.ca - U. K. LeGuin
-
- --Mike
- ---
- Michael Turner
- miket@tcs.com
-
-