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  • January 31st, 2013 11:36pm

    There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course your heart sinks and you think it’s going to be ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please help me.’ What a philosophically fantastic idea – that vulnerability and need is a beautiful thing.

    — Hugh Laurie  (via uoa)

  • January 31st, 2013 5:15pm

    Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

    — Samuel Delany (via likestepsonthemoon)

  • January 29th, 2013 1:19pm

    ‘There is an innate sort of kindness about him’, says Snyder. ‘Without him seeming holy, he is able to be kind in a way that feels natural. That is such a rare quality in the world today.’

    — Zack Snyder explains why Henry Cavill was chosen to play Clark Kent.  Man of Steel Interview, Empire magazine   (via therearecertainshadesoflimelight)

  • January 15th, 2013 1:07am

    In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art — when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant — is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.

    — John Gardner, The Art of Fiction  (via villa-rosie)

  • January 8th, 2013 12:45pm


    Look what just came in the mail! #scottsnyder #voodooheart

    “Scott Snyder’s Voodoo Heart just blew me away. These dispatches from disaffected but strangely likeable American oddities have much the same effect as good American roots music: their simplicity is deceptive, their emotional power considerable. And at some point between the mystery-blimp of Blue Yodel and the World War I-era Curtis Jenny of The Star Attraction of 1919, you may discover that Snyder’s plain folks have stolen your heart. I think what impressed me most about these stories—even the ones in which terrible things happen—was their warmth and humanity. Even when his characters are at their worst, Scott Snyder never abandons them. These are stories that welcome the reader in, and fully reward his interest. Sometimes horrifying, often absurd, full of characters afraid to commit (and who sometimes commit anyway), this is a debut worthy of T. Coraghessan Boyle’s If The River Was Whiskey. I couldn’t put it down.“ –Stephen King