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handful_ofdust) wrote2009-08-13 11:38 am
handful_ofdust) wrote2009-08-13 11:38 am
Annnnnd...Still Goin'!
1,130 words added, two more sections of Twelve hooked up; grantedly, the second of the two was already mainly written, though it did need tweaking to fall in line with Chapter Eleven's legacy. Which just means I have very little excuse for not continuing on until I run headlong into a wall, or whatever--
On the disappointment front, meanwhile: While nothing John C. Wright posts about...uh, anything, pretty much...amazes me anymore, cucumberseed's comments to tithenai's post ON Wright's most recent whackadoo hate-speech did re-direct me back to Dan Simmons' unfortunate "Message from the Future" (http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm), in which he (or his unreliable narrator, if you want to be pleasant about it) informs us that because we happy liberals of today aren't "hard" enough to advocate proactive genocide, our children's children will all end up as enslaved, pariah dhimmis living in Eurabia. As ever: Good to know.
At the time I first tripped across it, I dismissed this weirdness as being simply one more variety of post-9/11 nuttery, the same sort of scarily naive, inflammatory crap I saw amply demonstrated the day of, from people who at least had the excuse of having just watched the Towers come down. But it's still disappointing, especially coming from a man I still consider one of the greatest living writers in my chosen field (not to mention a man who was once very nice to me way back when, that one WHC in Denver).
In better news: Stereogirl is out of surgery, and apparently feeling much better. I should probably write to her, instead.
Amended to add: 570 words more, taking me well into the top of section three. And now the new stuff begins.
On the disappointment front, meanwhile: While nothing John C. Wright posts about...uh, anything, pretty much...amazes me anymore, cucumberseed's comments to tithenai's post ON Wright's most recent whackadoo hate-speech did re-direct me back to Dan Simmons' unfortunate "Message from the Future" (http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm), in which he (or his unreliable narrator, if you want to be pleasant about it) informs us that because we happy liberals of today aren't "hard" enough to advocate proactive genocide, our children's children will all end up as enslaved, pariah dhimmis living in Eurabia. As ever: Good to know.
At the time I first tripped across it, I dismissed this weirdness as being simply one more variety of post-9/11 nuttery, the same sort of scarily naive, inflammatory crap I saw amply demonstrated the day of, from people who at least had the excuse of having just watched the Towers come down. But it's still disappointing, especially coming from a man I still consider one of the greatest living writers in my chosen field (not to mention a man who was once very nice to me way back when, that one WHC in Denver).
In better news: Stereogirl is out of surgery, and apparently feeling much better. I should probably write to her, instead.
Amended to add: 570 words more, taking me well into the top of section three. And now the new stuff begins.
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