spirtual talk does not excuse you from being assholes

[idan_cohen]

Do not fear for me, internet, I have not yet gone, I am as alive as the stones in the beds of rivers. I read Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha from cover to cover today, and in between I had a discussion with my mother about conscious reality adjustement and its relevance to the great majority of the world which lives at the mercy of random evil. I think

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[soleta]

my father has every philip k. dick novel ever published.

[eisenhart]

I can't think of anything snarky to say so I'm just going to throw bits of smoker's lung at you.

[twigcollins]

I have never regretted more my literacy than in this moment.

[eisenhart]

My work here is done.

[the_entity]

Re: Lucifer: Dream is a cipher, an embodiment of dream and phantasy who can be worked into almost any kind of story, and particularly into stories about stories; Lucifer isn't, he's got a particular backstory and a particular character, one that lends itself more to pursuing an agenda than to simply existing (unlike Dream, whose business is more to exist than to act). Between that and Mike Carey not being Neil Gaiman, Lucifer was never going to keep the charm & wonder of Sandman alive; best it could do was to try to be successful and interesting on its own terms. From what I read (I've only come across the first few volumes) it did that pretty well.

I shall maybe get into Vernor Vinge when I have something resembling money.