I really don’t see what’s so exciting about MMA. It’s punches followed by 4 minutes of awkward hugging.
#18 Chunk
Wizard’s First Rule: Where you can kick a young evil princess in the face - shattering her jaw, teeth and separating her tongue - and get away with it
02/06/14 & 02/08/14
Missing in Action: Makes Rambo: First Blood Part 2 look like Schindlers List. That was just…bad. and in horrible need of riffing
Reading List Chunk 3 (Jan-Mar ‘14)
Part 2 can be found here
This is the last chunk of books I’ve read while I was gone. chunk 1 is….somewhere inaccessible for now.
Again didn’t always have options on what to read but more here than in either other chunks
Man: You talk like a child, be realistic!
Zeb Rawlins: I've noticed (...) that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means.
Wet or dry, you’re the handsomest woman I ever did see. You’ve got spirit and fine, sturdy body - a noble combination. Why, to you childbearin’ would come easy as rolling off a log.
A smooth talkin’ pilgrim, How the West Was Won.
Our mythology was what it was - gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.
C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (p201)
On Mars the very forests are of stone; in Venus the lands swim. For now he thought of them no more as Malacandra and Perelandra. He called them by their Tellurian names. With deep wonder he thought to himself, “My eyes have seen Mars and Venus. I have seen Ares and Aphrodite.” He asked them how they were known to the old poets of Tellus. When and from whom the Children of Addam learned that Ares was a man of war and Aphrodite rose from the Sea Foam,
C.S. Lewis, Perelandra, P 200
12/02/13
Short review on The Ruins Novel:
Not much Ruins per se. The killer entity was doing us a favour by ridding the world of these chuckleheads.