Good Omens
Posted by Richard on Sunday, 5 June 2005Finished reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Author, with <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com/tag/terry-pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>, of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441003257/sillygwailo-20"><i>Good Omens</i></a>. Also author of <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com/tag/american-gods"><i>American Gods</i></a>.
Finished reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: “Newton Pulsifier had never had a cause in his life. Nor had he, as far as he knew, believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe in something, since he recognized that belief was the lifebelt that got most people through the choppy waters of Life. He'd have liked to believe in a supreme God, although he'd have preferred a half-hour's chat with Him before committing himself, to clear up one or two points. He'd sat in all sorts of churches, waiting for that single flash of blue light, and it hadn't come. And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard, self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. And every single political party had seemed to him equally dishonest. And he'd given up on ecology when the ecology magazine he'd been subscribing to had shown its readers a plan of a self-sufficient garden, and had drawn the ecological goat tethered within three feet of the ecological beehive. Newt had spent a lot of time at his grandmother's house in the country and thought he knew something about the habits of both goats and bees, and concluded therefore that the magazine was run by a bunch of bib-overalled maniacs. Besides, it used the word "community" too often; Newt had always suspected that people who regularly used the word 'community' were using it in a very specific sense that excluded him and everyone he knew.”
Matt Mullenweg posted his end-of year tasks. Right now the only tasks I have are making lists of stuff to do in the new year, one of which is reading the unread books in my personal library. First up (but not necessarily in this order) are the following:
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See also: my other stack of unread books, which I may or may not get to in the new year, though one of them I recently finished reading, finally.
Photodude: “Nothing is permanent. Nothing.”
My current favourite quote with regards to 'nothing' is in American Gods by Neil Gaiman: “Even Nothing cannot last forever.” Explaining the quote would mean a spoiler, so only those who've read the book really understand what Gaiman is referring to, and it is something altogether different than storage media.
Finished reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Mr. Wednesday: “There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe that they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”