>>>>I take the war on drugs very seriously. In my youth I spent a lot of time taking drugs off the streets ...
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>>>We considered it more of a love affair than a war. It was an interesting time. I had the apartment, and I can remember many a time going to bed at maybe 2:00am with a couple of people sleeping on the couch and maybe one or two more on chairs, and waking up in the morning to a roomful of people sleeping all over the place.
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>>On the barricades of the sexual revolution - San Francisco in the 70s - it was not unusual if a roomful of people went to bed at 2 am. It was an interesting time. (we were deprived - we had lots of MMDA but no raves <s>)
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>>Hey, have you read any China Mieville? I am reading
Scar right now and then plan to read
Perdido Street Station Very much in the spirit of Richard K Morgan.
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>I must admit I have not. But from what I think I know, shouldn't you have read them in the reverse order?
Yes, but I was 100 pages into Scar before I got PSS and it doesn't seem to matter, in the sense that though the all exist in the same world the story itself doesn't seem to require you read them in sequence. I would recommend PSS first, though if starting now.
Quality of writing / visualizing very high and plotting delightfully complex.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
