The launching pads at Cape Canaveral are already religious icons.
Here's a funny thing, though not entirely surprising given the way my head works.
Reading this (Interview w/JGB, via that attractor-of-the-strange oletheros) after some splendid and enlightening conversations this weekend[1] made me think that the way I view the world (my weltanschauung, were one being properly pretentious, instead of just a little) is essentially Ballardian, and this is a very good thing indeed. I suspect that Ballardianism fills the same headspace for me that The Church of Joy (or whatever else) may fill for someone else.
[1] That was a fine event and no mistake. A pity about the sodding traffic. Sarf of ver rivver? Yer 'avin a right larf. And so we were. Consult photo-weblog-thing for less detail.
Reading this (Interview w/JGB, via that attractor-of-the-strange oletheros) after some splendid and enlightening conversations this weekend[1] made me think that the way I view the world (my weltanschauung, were one being properly pretentious, instead of just a little) is essentially Ballardian, and this is a very good thing indeed. I suspect that Ballardianism fills the same headspace for me that The Church of Joy (or whatever else) may fill for someone else.
[1] That was a fine event and no mistake. A pity about the sodding traffic. Sarf of ver rivver? Yer 'avin a right larf. And so we were. Consult photo-weblog-thing for less detail.