words

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