LJ Idol - Week 20 - Love...

[emo_snal]

   In the blackness of space, it would have looked like a golden comet hurtling through the starry background. For weeks it would be visible approaching the planet. First a distant speck the very existence of which astronomers would argue about. Day by day it would grow brighter, larger, closer. A comet? Is it on a collision course with us

Comments

[thenodrin]

So many things all at once. I'm getting a little Lovecraft, a literary reference, a lesson about insects, a moral and somewhat hippie (?) lesson for humanity, and a great ending to the incomplete sentence that is the topic.

Fantastic and fascinating.

Theno

[emo_snal]

Thanks! I really appreciate the detailed comment. I have no idea if the people who just posted "great post.." actually got half the things that I put in it, always nice to know what people are catching on to! (= Which literary reference are you referring to? (=

[thenodrin]

That would be "gavagai" from "Word and Object" by Quine, mentioned above in the comments.

Also, I assume that the use of "noodly appendage" is an intentional Flying Spaghetti Monster reference. That is more cultural than literary.

Also, the method that the humans meet the aliens reminds me of something, but I can't place what.

Theno

[emo_snal]

Ah good good. (= The method they meet I made up but I wouldn't be suprised if its been described similarly before. I hoped that describing seeing the spaceship from planetside first woudl help put the reader in a position of seeing if from the alien's point of view, more apt to understand that in this case WE'RE the extraterrestrials coming from space and causing serious (and not unfounded) concern for the natives.