Sep 03, 2005 23:08
johnnie walker red label tastes like distilled fecal remains, but i guess it gets the job done on a lonely saturday night in tennessee, right?
oh, and chew on this shit you guys. you can buy beer here until 3AM! i told the guy about the 11:45 georgia law and he laughed at me. fair enough.
for my birthday (early, that is) ron gave me a hardback copy of the uncut Stranger in a Strange Land. i forgot just how much i love jubal harshaw, and just how much he was the basis for sebastian. sebastian was, originally, a younger version of jubal (in temperment and attitude) with my own touches. jubal is my fuckin boy. next to gollum, i think jubal is my favorite fictional character.
"Jubal E. Harshaw, LL.B., M.D., Sc.D., bon vivant, gourmet, sybarite, popular author extraordinary, and neopessimist philosopher, was sitting by his swimming pool at his home in the Poconos and watching his three secretaries splash in the pool. They were all three amazingly beautiful; they were also amazingly good secretaries. In Harshaw's opinion the principle of least action required that utility and beauty be combined."
"He considered it certain that they would catch up. Nothing else could be expected. Whereupon people would come barging into his sancuary, asking stupid questions and making stupid demands... and he, Jubal harshaw, would have to make decisions and take action. Since he was philosophically convinced that all action was futile, the prospect irratated him."
"My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity... and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do was pleases Jubal Harshaw."