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Hollowed Memories, chapter 10, part 1 | The Doom That Came
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The Doom That Came. Fantasy, Science Fiction, and What I Think. Hollowed Memories, chapter 10, part 1. August 9, 2015. Chapter 10: Up to the Present. Yarec’s eyes had been closed for a long time. He was barely moving; there was just the slow rising and falling of his chest, and Mrissa thought that he might have fallen asleep. He looked younger now than when she had known him before, and that made him seem strangely childlike—his boyish face peacefully serene. Though, if they’d found you. You are commenti...
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An Irregular Sonnet | The Doom That Came
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The Doom That Came. Fantasy, Science Fiction, and What I Think. December 14, 2016. The dark lord is an enigma to them all. What was Khosatral Khel ‘fore he oozed up into iron? Was the Abhorrent an angel ere the fall,. And can he sit untroubled on the throne? He crafts in dead and tortured refuse flesh. A dumb colossus, raising him on high. But what god to worship (challenge? Of his own genius raking at the sky? A chronicler may puzzle out his birth—. What cosmogonous rupture turned his soul.
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The Doom That Came. Fantasy, Science Fiction, and What I Think. The Sound and The Fury. July 24, 2015. I recently read William Faulkner’s. The Sound and the Fury. The book had, frankly, been something I had planned to read for quite some time. The usual delay between when I decide that I ought to read something and when I actually tackle it is running about fifteen years these days. (I’m not sure why; it’s not because I’m too busy to read.). The Sound and the Fury. I do not believe this is how anyoneR...
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August | 2015 | The Doom That Came
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The Doom That Came. Fantasy, Science Fiction, and What I Think. Hollowed Memories, chapter 10, part 4. August 30, 2015. Most of the time, there were two interrogators. They seated themselves across from Mrissa, while she sipped a drink or a cup of instant soup they had offered her. Occasionally, the leader from the truck came by to join the questioning, although he did not have much to say and most of the time just seemed to be taking notes. Filed in Hollowed Memories. August 23, 2015. Knowing you, you’l...
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To See Ourselves | The Doom That Came
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The Doom That Came. Fantasy, Science Fiction, and What I Think. October 10, 2015. When I was in elementary school, the Salem-Keizer school district used the Holt Basic Reading System textbooks. In the earlier years, the curriculum seemed to include one or two science fiction stories per year. In third grade, I read Asimov’s “ The Fun They Had. 8221; “ To Serve Man. 8221; and “ All Summer in a Day. And it was amazing the feeling of power that gave him. 8221; Archibald Macleish’s short essay on how t...
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October 10, 2007. Has a typically informative post. About two words for ‘frog’ in Japanese, kaeru. He says “The common answer is that kawazu. Is the ‘old word’ that got replaced by the ‘new word’ kaeru. Would probably have been forgotten by all but the specialists by now (much like tazu. If it weren’t for one thing: the Dark Side of the Moon. Of traditional Japanese poetry, that one haikai by Bashō that everyone knows…. Furuike ya/ Kawazu tobikomu/ mizu no oto. Old pond/ Frog jumps in/ Sound of water.
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October | 2015 | The Doom That Came
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The Doom That Came. Fantasy, Science Fiction, and What I Think. October 10, 2015. When I was in elementary school, the Salem-Keizer school district used the Holt Basic Reading System textbooks. In the earlier years, the curriculum seemed to include one or two science fiction stories per year. In third grade, I read Asimov’s “ The Fun They Had. 8221; “ To Serve Man. 8221; and “ All Summer in a Day. And it was amazing the feeling of power that gave him. 8221; Archibald Macleish’s short essay on how t...
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July | 2015 | The Doom That Came
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The Doom That Came. Fantasy, Science Fiction, and What I Think. The Sound and The Fury. July 24, 2015. I recently read William Faulkner’s. The Sound and the Fury. The book had, frankly, been something I had planned to read for quite some time. The usual delay between when I decide that I ought to read something and when I actually tackle it is running about fifteen years these days. (I’m not sure why; it’s not because I’m too busy to read.). The Sound and the Fury. I do not believe this is how anyoneR...
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Hollowed Memories, chapter 10, part 2 | The Doom That Came
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The Doom That Came. Fantasy, Science Fiction, and What I Think. Hollowed Memories, chapter 10, part 2. August 16, 2015. She led them around the house and fed them her story. It was convincing enough to distract them, which was really the most important thing. Then, since Yarec was not present in any of the obvious living areas, the searchers headed back outside, bringing Mrissa with them. Don’t know, said one of the men standing behind her. She says she’s a bounty hunter. Well, search outside. If he’...