I will probably look back at this period and go "those were the days." It is one hell of a feeling to know that you are doing great and the world is fine. Doing nothing particularly interesting right now - just blogging in the middle of the night from a friend's house. Played cards, ate pizza, listened to music and suchlike.
Also read a bit when everyone else was sleeping, and noticed a parallel between Moorcock and Clarke. One writes about fantasy, and the other about science fiction, but both question the premises of human existence, and their approach to do this is similiar. Possibly the purpose of every author is to question the premise for Human existence, but here humans are in unnatural and alien worlds, and behave in a manner that is suitable even in our realm/multiverse, revealing ceratin basic truths about humanity that we fail to notice. More apparent in Moorcock, Clarke does it subtley, but I don't know how exactly to explain it, it's just there as an undercurrent that they both resent being human. I think reading the Rama/Odyssey series along with the Eternal Champion books should give anyone a clear idea of what I am talking about. Maybe I should collect examples, but both the series are too vast. I think I have blogged appealing lines from Moorcock books many times, so I just have to read Clarke now.
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