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[danceboy]

These past few months I've been going through my library reading the books that I bought years ago, but never read. For the most part, these books have been terrible (e.g. "Coriolanus, the chariot" by Alan Yates started out with a vaguely interesting premise, then just became bad. (No, worse that that. When one character asks "Are you sure you want to do that?" the other senses a trap. I'm not kidding.) "Imperial Stars" was so bad that I started to doubt Doc Smith. Turns out someone else expanded the late Doc's story into a novel).

Anyway, I'm in the middle of "Stochastic man" by Robert Silverberg. It's about a man who can kind of see into the future. Written in the 70s it's set in the mid 90s NYC. At one point the protagonist goes to a party that occupies an entire floor of a skyscraper. On one side the view is blocked by the twin towers. On the other side the windows are opaqued so that people don't see the crater where the statue of liberty used to be.

I put the book down and cried.

Comments

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

"Imperial Stars" was so bad that I started to doubt Doc Smith.

Yeah, the d'Alembert stuff is Doc in name only. I try to stick to Lensman and Skylark.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

OY! *hugs*

Not related to this entry :)

[whipchick.livejournal.com]

Two things - 1) we may have met, as I taught some mask workshops for Sebastiani years ago. 2) I'm looking for a female silks performer to work weekends at King Richard's fair. Know anyone? My email is devilini at gte dot net, and there's more info about my company at www.angelsintheair.com.

(I'm that person who wrote "All the good tricks hurt" :)

Allison

[flexagon]

Completely off topic, am I still invited to come try contact improv at some point? We had a whole comment-thread about that once, and it didn't quite happen and I have lost the info.

I have 1.5 weeks left before my next job starts, in which I'm totally free and I promised myself I would be experimental and have fun... so I might be up for contact improv if it fits my schedule. Please let me know / remind me, when and where are the options and that sort of thing. :)