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egypturnashThe bureaucrat fell from the sky.
...
Changing, the bureaucrat fell to the sea.
- Michael Swanwyck, Stations of the Tide
The bomb lives only as it is falling.
- Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
"I ached to fall."
- me, in Inhatti's description.
The whole of the book lies between those two lines from Swanwyck.
The Banks line is from the epigraph to the book, a poem pretending to be written by one of the story's characters.
The self-quote is the last line of a muck character description that intentionally breaks a lot of the rules of that form.
Why do lines about falling cling to my head? Admittedly, the third one has an intentional "fallen angel" theme at times - there's a quote from Satan's monologue in Milton in her pinfo.
Is sympathy for the Devil a shamelessly teenage thing? Eternal rebel, outcast. And so so pretty.
I get pompous when I'm getting sleepy.
Twin's reappeared on Puzzlebox for a couple days in a row, now. Still bound by history, I suppose. Someone asked (her) to tell a story tonight and (she) gave a semi-mythic overview of (her) story so far, that elliptically referred to the way it really just... stopped. (She)'s gotten a little snarky due to the exile I forced on (her), I suppose.
Twin's arguably a creature who descended, too, but in (her) case it was quite by choice. And not an uncontrolled fall.
If your fall never stops, it might be an orbit.
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Changing, the bureaucrat fell to the sea.
- Michael Swanwyck, Stations of the Tide
The bomb lives only as it is falling.
- Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
"I ached to fall."
- me, in Inhatti's description.
The whole of the book lies between those two lines from Swanwyck.
The Banks line is from the epigraph to the book, a poem pretending to be written by one of the story's characters.
The self-quote is the last line of a muck character description that intentionally breaks a lot of the rules of that form.
Why do lines about falling cling to my head? Admittedly, the third one has an intentional "fallen angel" theme at times - there's a quote from Satan's monologue in Milton in her pinfo.
Is sympathy for the Devil a shamelessly teenage thing? Eternal rebel, outcast. And so so pretty.
I get pompous when I'm getting sleepy.
Twin's reappeared on Puzzlebox for a couple days in a row, now. Still bound by history, I suppose. Someone asked (her) to tell a story tonight and (she) gave a semi-mythic overview of (her) story so far, that elliptically referred to the way it really just... stopped. (She)'s gotten a little snarky due to the exile I forced on (her), I suppose.
Twin's arguably a creature who descended, too, but in (her) case it was quite by choice. And not an uncontrolled fall.
If your fall never stops, it might be an orbit.
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Date: 2005-04-29 06:36 am (UTC)Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?
But how do you know you exist?
Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?
That's good. That's very good. But how do you know that anything else exists?
If your fall never stops, it might be an orbit.
Another scenario: once you pass the event horizon, your fall never stops: Zeno's Paradox applies to black holes. You can always approach a singularity, but never.. quite.. touch it.
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Date: 2005-04-29 11:55 am (UTC)There's this song that gives me shivers: Let Me Fall
(Comes from Cirque Du Soleil, during a scene of beautiful ribbon-dancing)
It also inspired a sketch at one point, that had a lot of emotional context to it as well.
The direction of falling depends on where the ground is. Flight is merely falling...upwards.
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Date: 2005-04-29 12:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-30 04:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-29 08:31 pm (UTC)Would that 6e something that Twin (sister) might enjoy?
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Date: 2005-04-29 09:05 pm (UTC)Twin has been know to give rides, too.
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Date: 2005-04-30 03:03 am (UTC)de6ating (her) past and (her) feelings about it
Funny, the star-sister and the centaur-sister are alike in that way.
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Date: 2005-05-01 05:25 pm (UTC)