Da Interview Redux #5
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1. Since you're closer to us then most filkers worldwide, any chance of us getting you to a Con in Israel sometime?
I'm really not sure. I'd love to drop by the Holy Land, but I've never really gotten around to organising it properly. Perhaps, I'm still mildly afraid I might get smited or something...
2. Do you know when you might have a cd out? (I know I've asked before, but I could promise you half dozen orders from here, maybe more.
When I andbedlamhouse can coordinate our asses together. Unfortunately, it's even more problematic now I'm halfway across the world.
3. How do you reconcile going from the Law to History, or even just wanting to? (been trying to figure this out myself, except as re Economics.)
As I told the admissions board, there's actually a lot of overlap. After all, a sizeable chunk of law is legal research, and digging into the past to see how a particular legal principle develops isn't that far away from historical analysis. My love of history isn't because of my legal background though - it's my love of stories, of the people who have played a part in shaping the world, in big ways or small, of being able to see a huge tapestry play itself out. It reminds you how small you are, and how much you are a part of something so much bigger.
4. Why Cthulu?
It's more like... why Lovecraft? Because his eyes resonate. Consider: "The single most merciful thing in the universe, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate its contents." Like his style of writing or not, you can see so much of modern horror fiction reflected in his ideas. Alien abductions. Secret histories. Dark, mindless entities and humans as cosmic spittle. Where victory is merely defeat delayed, and hope is a fiction to keep people sane. It's a world where God is not just evil and capricious, but also indifferent to your existence. And deep in our psyche, we fear that this might be true. That's horror.
5. What do you think of the new Battlestar Galactica, expecially the end of season 2?
In-fucking-credible. No other way to describe it, really. Gripping human drama so compelling that you forget... or don't care... about its science fictional setting. It's not just a great science fiction television show, it's a great television show, period. Season's not over yet — it's just the summer break. But, I think, like many people, as I watched the end of "Pegasus", I went "Arrrgh! Four months!
nightface1. Since you're closer to us then most filkers worldwide, any chance of us getting you to a Con in Israel sometime?
I'm really not sure. I'd love to drop by the Holy Land, but I've never really gotten around to organising it properly. Perhaps, I'm still mildly afraid I might get smited or something...
2. Do you know when you might have a cd out? (I know I've asked before, but I could promise you half dozen orders from here, maybe more.
When I and
bedlamhouse can coordinate our asses together. Unfortunately, it's even more problematic now I'm halfway across the world.3. How do you reconcile going from the Law to History, or even just wanting to? (been trying to figure this out myself, except as re Economics.)
As I told the admissions board, there's actually a lot of overlap. After all, a sizeable chunk of law is legal research, and digging into the past to see how a particular legal principle develops isn't that far away from historical analysis. My love of history isn't because of my legal background though - it's my love of stories, of the people who have played a part in shaping the world, in big ways or small, of being able to see a huge tapestry play itself out. It reminds you how small you are, and how much you are a part of something so much bigger.
4. Why Cthulu?
It's more like... why Lovecraft? Because his eyes resonate. Consider: "The single most merciful thing in the universe, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate its contents." Like his style of writing or not, you can see so much of modern horror fiction reflected in his ideas. Alien abductions. Secret histories. Dark, mindless entities and humans as cosmic spittle. Where victory is merely defeat delayed, and hope is a fiction to keep people sane. It's a world where God is not just evil and capricious, but also indifferent to your existence. And deep in our psyche, we fear that this might be true. That's horror.
5. What do you think of the new Battlestar Galactica, expecially the end of season 2?
In-fucking-credible. No other way to describe it, really. Gripping human drama so compelling that you forget... or don't care... about its science fictional setting. It's not just a great science fiction television show, it's a great television show, period. Season's not over yet — it's just the summer break. But, I think, like many people, as I watched the end of "Pegasus", I went "Arrrgh! Four months!
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Date: 2005-10-04 02:11 pm (UTC)3. I took one Roman history course and was doomed. I'm still in Econ but I've added Chinese, Roman, Greek, Persian & Japanese histories to my reading.
4. Because his eyes resonate - That says it all. That feeling has come over me with different authors.
5. I would have agreed with you until "Pegasus" but...it was so damnably predictable! Conflict of authority, new people become enemies - from the beginning of the episode it was telegraphed and I was so hoping that they would give it any twist other then the obvious. We'll see what they do with it, but they managed to lower my expectation siginificantly with this episode. First time I've seen many characters react wrong for plot based reasons instead of their internal processes.
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Date: 2005-10-04 10:01 pm (UTC)