Random Things on a Saturday

[jbs_teeth]

1) I was reading an article on animal sentience in an old (March 2008) issue of National Geographic, and I still find it extraordinary that science needs to be convinced of this. Observation alone is not science -- I understand that -- and proof is something different altogether, as is anthropomorphising. BUT.

Well, of course, "but." I know Petey

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[jbs_teeth]

You know, the thing about SCT and EvS Presents DW isn't that the plot is so great (there's really no plot -- or lots of tiny plots, depending on how you look at it), or even that the writing is great (sam's prose itself is not exceptional, per se) but rather that the whole thing is so smart that it blows you away. The meta of it, the surrealism, the originality of thought, is truly unbelievable.

You know I like to read the comments, and someone else was talking about the series as Revolutionary, and it's not an exaggeration. I think what he's getting at is the work is truly transformative, taking one thing and making it something else.

I was saying to Lifty last weekend that I loved the book Wicked for a million reasons (the prose is dense and poetically elaborate, which you'll recognize as things I love) but partly because it was the book that made me realize that I just DIG the idea of fictionalizing the fictional (of the mythical and pedagogical and icongraphical), and that's where Sam is going to the nth degree with that series.

Oops! So late now!