"Her name, she told him, was Mary Lorne. She was, he decided, pretty, wistful, afraid and putting up a good front. Together they joined the other new students for a showing of a recent Herbie the Hyena cartoon which Bibleman had seen; it was the episode in which Herbie attempted to assassinate the Russian monk Rasputin. In his usual fashion Herbie the Hyena poisoned his victim, shot him, blew him up six times, stabbed him, tied him up with chains and sank him in the Volga, tore him apart with wild horses and finally shot him to the moon strapped to a rocket. The cartoon bored Bibleman. He did not give a damn about Herbie the Hyena or Russian history and he wondered if this was a sample of the College's level of pedagogy. He could imagine Herbie the Hyena illustrating Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle. Herbie - in Bibleman's mind - cased after a subatomic particle fruitlessly, the particle bobbing up at random her and there... Herbie making wild swings at it with a hammer; then a whole flock of subatomic particles jeering at Herbie, who was doomed as always to fuck up."
- "The Exit Door Leads In" by Phillip K. Dick
"Grâce à dieu je suis toujours athée." - Luis Bunuel
Sep 10, 2008
Yeah... I failed in that aspect. The whole "let's review everything" aspect. Maybe it will happen later.
Here are some good things though:
Mirrormask, Riders to the Sea, The Blind Watchmaker, Diana Wynne Jones, other stuff I've forgotten
Jun 22, 2008
I've decided that this summer I will write a review of every book that I read, or read the majority of and many television programmes that I watch. It will start now.
Abhorsen by Garth Nix is not a first read for me. I first read this in middle school when I had just …
The Assassination of Richard Nixon, The Last King of Scotland, Apocalypse Now
The Fountainhead, currently reading Twilight (complete drivel, but I was bored and it's a quick read)