Total love. I really love this as a writing exercise as well. I could lie in the grass for hours and stare at the clouds and think about what Rude got up to in Libya - what they would all get up to in this world. Who would they work for? Rupert Murdoch?
I think it wouldn't take too many clicks off our present moment for Rufus (running a sort of part-Murdoch Empire, part Google Empire, part Apple kind of operation, perhaps) to be deploying guys like Rude in Somalia.
And this line made my life COMPLETE and giggling like the incoherent Rude fangirl that I am: "Rude, deeply engrossed in House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, did not respond."
I'm still cackling with glee as I copy and paste this.
Close second: Tseng reading the London Financial Times.
Thank you - actually thought of you as I was contemplating Rude here. I like a wonkier Rude and can easily see him all up in stuff on Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, etc.
Tseng with the FT was one of the first glimpses I had of this piece. I also have a ghostly image of him in mirrorshades, standing on the edge of some secret airstrip - where? Khartoum? Heat waves are miraging up from the packed-dirt surface. He's got a phone to his ear. Mentally, he's cursing. Out loud, he is issuing instructions. In Arabic.
I love, LOVE that closing. The last five lines of this make the whole thing, for me. As they should.
I will admit to having been even more out of touch than I usually am, regarding current events. I have no clue who this purported Antichrist is. It seems I have some research to engage in at some point in the future.
Also, I can no longer read ANYTHING that refers to the Antichrist without thinking of Good Omens. ^_~
Thank you! I debated for quite a while leaving off the last three lines, and decided they should stay.
Huntsman is probably at the end of the list of candidates for President going into the Republican primary. He's way too sane for his own good, and in fact appears to be one of that dying breed, the Republican fiscal conservative who believes your private life is none of his goddamn business, that commerce is good but it's pointless to try to run a business if you've destroyed the planet that's supposedly buying your goods, and that science is not just a Commie plot.
I have this weird impression they're going to make a movie out of Good Omens. Y/N? Perhaps I'm insane.
Yep. Pro-life to the max. Ex-Governor of Utah, total Mormon. Never mind; he's a fiscal conservative who's demonstrated major pro-life tendencies, but has non-medieval views on the legitimacy of science.
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I really love this as a writing exercise as well.
I could lie in the grass for hours and stare at the clouds and think about what Rude got up to in Libya - what they would all get up to in this world. Who would they work for? Rupert Murdoch?
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Glad you had fun with this!
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And this line made my life COMPLETE and giggling like the incoherent Rude fangirl that I am: "Rude, deeply engrossed in House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, did not respond."
I'm still cackling with glee as I copy and paste this.
Close second: Tseng reading the London Financial Times.
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Tseng with the FT was one of the first glimpses I had of this piece. I also have a ghostly image of him in mirrorshades, standing on the edge of some secret airstrip - where? Khartoum? Heat waves are miraging up from the packed-dirt surface. He's got a phone to his ear. Mentally, he's cursing. Out loud, he is issuing instructions. In Arabic.
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I will admit to having been even more out of touch than I usually am, regarding current events. I have no clue who this purported Antichrist is. It seems I have some research to engage in at some point in the future.
Also, I can no longer read ANYTHING that refers to the Antichrist without thinking of Good Omens. ^_~
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Huntsman is probably at the end of the list of candidates for President going into the Republican primary. He's way too sane for his own good, and in fact appears to be one of that dying breed, the Republican fiscal conservative who believes your private life is none of his goddamn business, that commerce is good but it's pointless to try to run a business if you've destroyed the planet that's supposedly buying your goods, and that science is not just a Commie plot.
I have this weird impression they're going to make a movie out of Good Omens. Y/N? Perhaps I'm insane.
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