“We go now,” said the Skandia leader from the top of the monument. “We have enjoyed every minute of our short visit. Do not despair! We will not abandon you to your emptiness. Our token force will return home and report. In another week we will visit you in substantial numbers. We will teach you the full happiness of human proximity, the glory of fruitfulness, the blessing of adequate population. We will teach you to fill up the horrible empty places of your planet.” (R.A. lafferty: Guesting Time)
Archive for september, 2014
kill that novel ..!
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous, like a person wearing full armor attacking a hot fudge sundae. (Kurt Vonnegut)
telefoner
– har du glemt at tage din telefon med ..?
– nej, jeg glemte bare at tage den …
author unknown
Dance Like No One is Watching … Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt Before … Go to Work Like You Don’t Need The Money. (Author unknown)
rutebilen til svendborg
– facebook kan godt minde om rutebilen til svendborg ..!
– ja, man møder nogen man kender og endnu flere, man ikke kender …
sand rædsel
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. (Kurt Vonnegut)
lost technology
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. (Kurt Vonnegut)
charles bukowski
“It was a splendid day in spring and outside we could hear the birds that hadn’t been killed by the smog” – Charles Bukowski
verden som vilje og tapet
“Since everything is permitted, you will need no permit,” the permit man said. “Go, man, go.” R.A. Lafferty, ‘The World as Will and Wallpaper’ (1973)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
“There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me’.” ― Philip K. Dick
spidskompetence
– hvad mener du selv er din spidskompetence …
– jeg er god til at barbere mig selv uden at komme til skade …
drunk invisibles
“I’m not happy around people and after I drink enough they seem to vanish.” – Charles Bukowski
overfladiske relationer
It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well. (Charles Bukowski)
forbandelse #2
gid der må være en særlig afdeling i helvede for brugtbogsforhandlere der sælger skævlæste, udrangerede bibliotekseksemplarer under betegnelsen “pænt indbundet eksemplar” … gid deres røve må være for tunge til at de kan rejse sig fra fadene med gloende kul …
og andre tunge ting
“Gid din røv må være for tung til at du kan rejse dig op.” (Gammelt ordskrog)
årstidernes skiften
– om vinteren er der i det mindste ingen bananfluer ..!
– nej, men til gengæld er der isbjørne …
wings into operas
There is a flower that bees cannot afford. It is too rich for them and would change their wings into operas. (Richard Brautigan)
the darkness of the room
“I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.” – Charles Bukowski
BRENDAN DUBOIS
Resurrection Day is a novel written by Brendan DuBois in 1999. It is an alternate history where the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to a full-scale war, the Soviet Union is devastated, and the USA has been reduced to a third-rate power, relying on Britain for aid. Resurrection Day won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History that year.
Europe survived the war largely unscathed. NATO collapsed almost as soon as hostilities commenced, and France and (a united) Germany now preside over the continent. Britain remains an ally of the USA, and actually assists in post-war reconstruction efforts in US states hit hardest by the war. The UK in the period after 1962, has managed to regain much of its pre 1939 colonial confidence in the vacuum left by the destruction of the U.S.S.R and the emasculation of the US in world affairs. The policy of decolonialisation has been halted and even reversed, some newly independent nations even returning to the remaining British “Empire” in the new, uncertain world created after the “Cuban War”. While British aid is welcome, there is also a sense of resentment in America over excessive dependence on the UK. The presence of British and Canadian military personnel in the USA is also a source of contention, with some Americans wondering whether their allies possess ulterior motives.
albert junior
– jeg keder mig, walther – hvad skal vi lave ..?
– vi kan gå ind og blive smidt ud fra biblioteket …