Posts Tagged ‘fiction’

There was irony.  How many politicians and poets pontificated on the state of humankind. How many pined for the day that human beings would transcend our primate roots.  Our lizard brains.  Centuries and many wars after the War to End All Wars we had made it.  There was peace.  For the first time in recorded [...]


“Love doesn’t know how to discriminate”


“God hates race mixing.”


“Segregation is not a family value”


“Vote NO on Prop. GRAY!”


This is historical fiction.  I wasn’t there for all of it.  I definitely was not there for the bar scene.  There’s something very Tarantino about it.  It’s fascinating and repulsive.  But it is real.  Once.  There were simpler days.  This is not for young ones and probably not suitable for work.  I may put a [...]


Hey.
So, the “His Dark Materials” trilogy.  In “The Golden Compass” everyone had daemons, animal spirits that were a physical manifestation of their souls.  Are the daemons born with the babies?  A woman might give birth to a baby and a … puppy?  Or do the daemons just appear one day.  How’s that work?
You will often [...]