The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!”
Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?”
“Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!
Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and horny butterfly.
Scott WesterfeldTwo weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous
Scott WesterfeldSometimes Tally felt she could almost accept brain damage if it meant a life without reconstituted noodles.
Scott WesterfeldBecoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.
Scott WesterfeldHistory would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
Scott WesterfeldIt's exciting. But you can't keep fighting the way things are forever.
Scott WesterfeldSure, zombies can “be a metaphor.” They can represent the oppressed, as in Land of the Dead, or humanity’s feral nature, as in 28 Days. Or racial politics or fear of contagion or even the consumer unconscious (Night of the Living Dead, Resident Evil, Dawn of the Dead). We could play this game all night.
But really, zombies are not “supposed to be metaphors.” They’re supposed to be friggin’ zombies. They follow the Zombie Rules: they rise from death to eat the flesh of the living, they shuffle in slow pursuit (or should, anyway), and most important, they multiply exponentially. They bring civilization down, taking all but the most resourceful, lucky and well-armed among us, whom they save for last. They make us the hunted; all of us.
That’s the stuff zombies are supposed to do. Yes, they make excellent symbols, and metaphors, and have kick-ass mythopoeic resonance to boot. But their main job is to follow genre conventions, to play with and expand the Zombie Rules, to make us begin to see the world as a place colored by our own zombie contingency plans. […]
Stories are the original virtual reality device; their internal rules spread out into reality around us like a bite-transmitted virus, slowly but inexorably consuming its flesh. They don’t just stand around “being metaphors” whose sole purpose is to represent things in the real world; they eat the real world.
Stichwörter: stories metaphors zombies
Boys had something else...a sort of swagger about them.
Scott WesterfeldStichwörter: swag
She was nothing in particular. But at least she had a purpose.
Scott WesterfeldStichwörter: life struggles trying-hard
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