words
I enjoy words: especially
written storytelling, but also
consumption, play, more play, and even in
computing.
However now I present you with a meta-collage of words,
for language is art, and this is the gallery of collected
works that I would show off to the world. It is an exercise
in appreciation and necessarily imperfect, personal
understanding.
- Douglas Adams erupts like a perfectly unbalanced simile at 1,000 mph
- Isaac Asimov tickles like a 10-pound cybernetic feather, intensely
satisfying but precisely aimed and articulated
- Arthur C. Clarke makes you wonder if it couldn't happen here
- Robert Heinlein injects the wonder drugs of his own characters
into the beloved worlds of others: thus a meta-artisan himself..
- Frank Herbert understands and illuminates human nature to those of
us less aware of it
- Neil Gaiman engenders belief in the unbelievable
- William Gibson keeps us from falling into dystopia unawares
- C.S. Lewis reminds us that reverence need not be annoying or
heavy-handed
- Cormac McCarthy tumbles by, a very poignant weed in a desolate land
- Larry Niven engineers a nearby deeply fulfilling universe
- Terry Pratchett brings the belly laugh to your head
- Thomas Pynchon is more paranoid than you, or is he?
- Daniel Quinn reminds us of reality as we don't know it
- Neal Stephenson wrings you out and hangs you to dry on the best
sunny afternoon in existence
- J. R. R. Tolkien really satisfies
- Kurt Vonnegut manifests as a sledgehammer to the funny bone
- Robert Anton Wilson questions reality without stepping so far outside
of it that you lose context, but almost
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