Posted on 11/03/2005 10:28:48 PM PST by TheMadLurker
Wild! That's what Santa said!
I used to dream of having a craft that was a cross between Dr. Who's Tardis, and Heinlein's weird drive in Number of the Beast, with some of the genetic engineering capacity Roger Zelazny imagined in Lord of Light...
Too derivative to write, but fun to play around with in my head...
KEWL!
Santa knows whereof he speaks, no doubt!
My son had an entire city in his head when he was a short person. Folks moved around on "conveyor belts" (for lack of a better name) and the "belts" knew no limits...anywhere you could think of, that's where they would take you.
Dang...I wish he could have shared it sooner...
I just came up with a new quote. Someone please help as to its deep/shallow meaning if any.
OK, here it is:
"Those who seek will not find; those who found will not seek."
Should I add to to my illustrous list of quotations, or what?
What's you opinion? I'd like to know.
Now, where is that can....?
Cool. I like the image...
That reminds me of...
(Y'all are just making me have sf literary connections all over the place.)
The Roads Must Roll - Robert Heinlein,
And for some reason that I cannot understand, "Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man by Harlan Ellison. That story has nothing to do with your son's image, but it rudely butted into my associating SF images.
That sorta sounds like this place. We have movie theaters, food shops, ice cream parlors, petting zoos, swimming pools, shooting ranges, archery courts, (no bowling alleys!), shops, farms, labs, factories, astronomy labs, and somewhat magical creatures -- and they are all within walking distance or a short "tube" ride away.
The elevator cars are spherical for a reason. They have to rotate and re-orient within the tube. If you go to an adjacent habitat for a fish dinner, for example, its gravitational field will be rotated by 120 degrees.
With up to ten thousand people in our shared space, only minutes apart, there aren't many limits on activities.
Wonderful! You are one of the reasons the Free republic is so great. Thank you!
Thank you all.
Be sure to tune in next week!
I ended up not taking a nap. I'm tired, but I can't sleep.
I can't remember if I ever finished that book or not. I didn't like it, and I think it was the last thing by him I even tried to read.
Ellison, master of titles: "I see a Man Sitting in a Chair and the Chair is Biting His Leg", "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream"...
| Time to turn out the lights. |
Good morning!
Pat made it through the night with no puddle! In fact, his only puddle of the day occurred when I was in the shower, and the Male Family Members got lazy. (Sigh.)
Maybe this won't be as disastrous as I expected. (Famous last words ...)
I found the first half of "The Number of the Beast" to be very entertaining, and the second half to be increasingly confusing, but I would never deny myself a Heinlein.
I've read some really atrocious books, just our of pure cussedness, since I had already paid for it. I suppose the more of Heinlein you have read, the more forgiving you are.
I'll be off to work in a moment, and I'll check in later in the day.
Enjoy your day!
Famous last words. Maybe today will be the worst, and then things will get better?
Could be... "Hope for the Best, plan for the Worst."
Y'all must be on vacation or something...
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