"All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun."

[greygirlbeast]

We saw a little summer, and now cold spring has wrapped itself about us once again. Today, we'll be lucky to see 71˚F (currently a balmy 66˚F), and the skies are overcast. And I know, now, that the next six months are going to be the busiest of my whole writing career (well, thus far, so the busiest in nineteen years). Busy is good. Busy is work.

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[greygirlbeast]

I haven't seen Prometheus. Or any of the Alien films, actually.

Wow.

Maybe it's because I got my BA in anthropology.

That helps. I got an undergrad minor in philosophy, and took lots of elective comparative mythology courses.

[whiskeychick]

Well the transwoman thing, I believe is squashed with Weyland's statement of "closest thing to a son."

But, I suppose those thinking she is would have an argument for that. /sigh.

[greygirlbeast]

Well the transwoman thing, I believe is squashed with Weyland's statement of "closest thing to a son."

I would say so. And, to, the lack of genuine evidence. And the aforementioned evidence against that proposal. It is so absurd as to be dismissed out of hand.

But, I suppose those thinking she is would have an argument for that.

It would have to be an idiotic argument, based on fallacious reasoning.

[ashlyme]

Aunt B - thank you so much for the link to the essay. I left Prometheus feeling very thoughtful, and there's not many films that do that for me. This nails a lot of my questions. (I liked the film a helluva lot. I had complex reactions to it. I also wondered what a movie of Dry Salvages might be like, too.)

[greygirlbeast]

I also wondered what a movie of Dry Salvages might be like, too.

I'd love to know. Probably never will.

[slothman]

The squirrel channel is one of the top-rated ones on Kitty TV. It would be rude to cancel such a popular show!

[greygirlbeast]

Hubero says "Yes."

[laudre]

"And now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn."

I've not seen Prometheus yet (though I will, eventually), but I've known cavalorn (however casually) for years, and he's a brilliant essayist and writer, among other things. This post remains one of the funniest things I've ever read.

[greygirlbeast]

This is my very first exposure to him.

[laudre]

It's a bit weird, actually; he'd largely faded from LJ, posting increasingly infrequent updates, and then his wife started posting to it with some exercises from a creative writing class. Then, a bit back, he made noises about once again using it on a regular basis, and the Prometheus essay you linked was actually his second big post about the film ( this essay, about the Space Jockey, was his first return-to-old-form post, and written in advance of the film), but it's the one the Internet discovered.

(Oh, and to bring in the whole six degrees thing, IIRC Neil Gaiman attended his wedding, as a friend of the family.)

[greygirlbeast]

(Oh, and to bring in the whole six degrees thing, IIRC Neil Gaiman attended his wedding, as a friend of the family.)

Okay...weird.