Comments | cadhla: Random-ass facts that verge on being meaningless.

cadhla

Random-ass facts that verge on being meaningless.

Sep 28, 2006 07:56

10. I like to read 'The Long Walk', by Stephen King, while taking long walks. 'The Long Walk' is about a game show-like endurance test where a hundred boys start walking, and keep walking, without rest, until all but one are dead. I find this oddly soothing. If I knew why, it would probably disturb me ( Read more... )

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sanity_cheque September 28 2006, 15:09:14 UTC

'The Long Walk' is actually my favorite of the Bachman books. I hesitate to analyze the work (because I hate doing that), but I always think of the Walk as a compressed vesion of Life itself.

cadhla September 28 2006, 17:57:16 UTC

I can see that. And agreed -- of the four short novels published in the omnibus, that's my fave, too.

twfarlan September 28 2006, 15:11:39 UTC

If you understand a mystery, then it loses the quality that makes it powerful.

Just a thought.

rysmiel September 28 2006, 16:45:29 UTC

I profoundly disagree.

Rainbows are beautiful. Understanding how the simple basic principles of reflection and refraction bring rainbows about, to my mind, only exposes you to a deeper underlying beauty in the rainbow as manifest6ation of some beautiful simple elegant bits of physics.

batyatoon September 28 2006, 16:57:06 UTC

Yes, but the beauty of a rainbow (or of anything really) has nothing to do with the power of whatever mystery it possesses.

rysmiel September 28 2006, 17:32:09 UTC

I suspect my disagreement with that is at too deep and tangled an emotional level to drag up into words. Which is a bit annoying, really.

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cadhla September 28 2006, 18:03:53 UTC

I'd like to see them deal with it...

...if it had ever really come up at all, rather than being a one-page idea that went nowhere. That's the thing; it was such a short-lived concept that it really didn't do anything. I mean, I suppose you could argue the fact that everyone else in Jean's class fell for her as being Xavier's influence (when the telepath falls in love, everyone falls in love)...

And dude, Xavier's hot. Scary, but hot.

lots42 September 28 2006, 21:51:36 UTC

Hell, I have a fan-crush on the girl who can turn into a wolf. No big.

escritoireazul September 29 2006, 02:45:32 UTC

I second this. She's such a great character.

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cadhla September 28 2006, 18:06:46 UTC

*giggle*

Your disconnect rocks me.

billroper September 28 2006, 15:58:10 UTC

Speaking of zombies, did you see the one about the Zombie Rights March? My friend, marsgov, pointed it out to me...

cadhla September 28 2006, 18:07:05 UTC

That. Is. AWESOME.