Listen now | Let’s Kill Hitler. By late 1941 there were plenty of pulp stories and comic books with plots about doing away with Hitler. Today, I’m going to tell you about two of them: “Nothing But Gingerbread Left” by Henry Kuttner and “Time Column” by Malcom Jameson.
Actually, it's exactly the same thing. Kuttner knew stuff. Accidentally or else he was really smart. And he died mysteriously by "heart attack" quite young and his wife never wrote another piece of fiction again. You like obscure facts? Try that one on for size. ;-)
Wasn't aware. What KVJ calls a "duprass" perhaps? CH needs to brush up on his KVJ, as he doesn't really know what FOMA or GRANFALOONS actually are...
Yes, I suppose they are KIND OF the same. Although one is more leading astray and AWOL and one is more attempting to keep the boogie man at bay. It all ultimately amounts to the same things, once we all drop the charade.
I think it's all an attempt to sidestep the programming. Whatever the programming is at the time. We all feel that there is an "enemy", even if we don't have the sense or education or even curiosity to look at it. It's one of the reasons why "The Matrix" got so much traction. Writers (or any creative, really) translate what they feel/know into their art. We all have cultural filters and they can get heavy. I think taking a looser view of the specifics can be helpful sometimes. As a painter would say, "color and shape only." That can allow you to see the similarities without the cultural or temporal differences.
Definitely fantasy. No Man in the High Castle. We're here because we're here.
I had that sick thought regarding Soros the other day. Wondered how many pieces drawing and quartering would find him in. How many hearts and livers might spill out...
I'm going to leave all that house cleaning to the peeps in the system. I'm OUT.
Did love that story. Makes one a little nutty by the end. Jabberwocky.
I've been curious about Julian May and the Many Colored Land saga. Stephen Fabian did the covers for a nice set, but someone wants $1000 on eBay. I'll have to go cheaper than that.
I was thinking about The Many Colored Land books the other day. I read them ages ago. They were good but had that weird flavor that time travel stories got in the 1980's and '90's. Sort of dark but also tongue in cheek at times. Intellectual terror"lite", if you will.
"The Man in the High Castle" is an excellent work. But it came out so many years after the end of WWII it belongs to a different sort of category from the stories I was talking about in this week's podcast. No wish fulfillment there. I find it interesting that his books have been used so often by Hollywood and twisted from their roots as they do it. Perhaps they know his stories have weight and might make people think if they don't twist them into glitzy pablum.
Ha ha! THE latest CH he mentions similar in the origin of "hymns". But in the opposite application. Cryptic, I know.
Actually, it's exactly the same thing. Kuttner knew stuff. Accidentally or else he was really smart. And he died mysteriously by "heart attack" quite young and his wife never wrote another piece of fiction again. You like obscure facts? Try that one on for size. ;-)
Wasn't aware. What KVJ calls a "duprass" perhaps? CH needs to brush up on his KVJ, as he doesn't really know what FOMA or GRANFALOONS actually are...
Yes, I suppose they are KIND OF the same. Although one is more leading astray and AWOL and one is more attempting to keep the boogie man at bay. It all ultimately amounts to the same things, once we all drop the charade.
I think it's all an attempt to sidestep the programming. Whatever the programming is at the time. We all feel that there is an "enemy", even if we don't have the sense or education or even curiosity to look at it. It's one of the reasons why "The Matrix" got so much traction. Writers (or any creative, really) translate what they feel/know into their art. We all have cultural filters and they can get heavy. I think taking a looser view of the specifics can be helpful sometimes. As a painter would say, "color and shape only." That can allow you to see the similarities without the cultural or temporal differences.
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Yeah, I don't really have that problem. Everybody different. Virtual interaction is making everybody CUCKOO!
I still have those senses that allow me to feel people out. And they know it...
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It will be nice as the masks drop off more and more. Maybe we'll all get more playful once we can trust one another again.
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LOL Oh, let that be so! We could all use it. :-D
Yeah... Nah.... Yeah...
Definitely fantasy. No Man in the High Castle. We're here because we're here.
I had that sick thought regarding Soros the other day. Wondered how many pieces drawing and quartering would find him in. How many hearts and livers might spill out...
I'm going to leave all that house cleaning to the peeps in the system. I'm OUT.
Did love that story. Makes one a little nutty by the end. Jabberwocky.
I've been curious about Julian May and the Many Colored Land saga. Stephen Fabian did the covers for a nice set, but someone wants $1000 on eBay. I'll have to go cheaper than that.
I was thinking about The Many Colored Land books the other day. I read them ages ago. They were good but had that weird flavor that time travel stories got in the 1980's and '90's. Sort of dark but also tongue in cheek at times. Intellectual terror"lite", if you will.
"The Man in the High Castle" is an excellent work. But it came out so many years after the end of WWII it belongs to a different sort of category from the stories I was talking about in this week's podcast. No wish fulfillment there. I find it interesting that his books have been used so often by Hollywood and twisted from their roots as they do it. Perhaps they know his stories have weight and might make people think if they don't twist them into glitzy pablum.
Often I comment while still listening. Such was the case in my mentioning Man in the High Castle right before you...
Yes, PKD has similar issues to Stephen King when translating to the screen. Hard to just stay true to the material.