Posted on 03/27/2009 5:38:49 AM PDT by jalisco555
Not even an Honorable Mention for the Chief Science Fiction Religion Creator, L.Ron Hubbard?
"Stewie and the family going to the Star Trek TNG convention. According to Goodman, when Stewie doesn't get his question answered, "He buys plans for a transporter and beams the cast into his room."
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b105869_family_guy_lives_long_prospers_on_sunday.html
You recall correctly. Still, the Narrator, while theoretically an agnostic or atheist, defends God to the Curate, and marvels at God's infinite wisdom at the end:
"In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood upon its crest, and the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter places. And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians--dead!--slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth."
http://www.greatbooksguide.com/nobel2.html
Oops, sorry, my reply got garbled. Anyway the website is http://www.greatbooksguide.com/nobel2.html
Yeah, I’m not saying that these cats even write badly or whatever. I’m sure there are plenty of folks who clap like seals whenever they get to read some mundane crap all about the crushing reality of modern day folks and their FEELINGS. It’s just that it makes me wanna vomit that the semi-popular culture that defines what is “literature” (even the word makes me wanna hurl) claims that the fantastic has no part in it when historically it would seem that it has a lot do with it.
Freegards
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