Today is the 87th birthday of poet, novelist, and activist Marge Piercy. In 1976, she published "Woman on the Edge of Time," a work of speculative science fiction about a working-class Latina woman who is committed to an insane asylum, and whose experiences with time travel lead her to understand that her actions will influence the direction of the future. It became regarded as a feminist classic of science fiction.
I thought Garrison wrote a powerful intro today the tway the local police stopped anymore killing other than responding to the killer with their own weapons. It's regrettable that schools now need trained police gun teams, but of course, they can't. They can put killers in More Restrictive Environments wherein they are no danger to themselves or others. But our society saw fit to remove these medical treatment centers instead of making them more effective....which now medications can do. Such a shame on us all!
And so it was better. What you dream and write can become what it might be.....especially for an octogenarian whose octo is greater than mine and Garrison. My fave sci fi book is the one I "borrowed" in my teaching days from our Madison Memorial high school library. The betterment of the world fell upon the discoveries of the monestaries who discovered the square root of 2 which led to the betterment of the world. But it didn't last because society repeated the same errors. I can no longer remember the title yet, my being 85 and somewhat forgetful. The title will come back to me and then I can buy a couple paperbacks from Amazon for my grandkids. Let's not make the same mistakes again, unless we must.
OK, at last the title came back to me via my incredible wife who tossed a few sci-fi high school words into Amazon and "Bingo!" So it returned: "A Canticle for Leibowitz,"by Walter Miller Jr. You Sci-Fi's will love it.....
Does discovery impede or enable mankind? Or do we continue to rediscover the same sins? I think the monks should destroy it. Who needs radical two? After all, we have infinite, non-repeatable digits, like Pi....which on the face of it is far better.
The cyclical nature of history, with all its faults, appeals. Believing that one step forward is enough, or , all, is contrary to what utopian futurists accept. That we live in purgatory / not the best or worst of times, may be a reality that keeps us sane.
I thought Garrison wrote a powerful intro today the tway the local police stopped anymore killing other than responding to the killer with their own weapons. It's regrettable that schools now need trained police gun teams, but of course, they can't. They can put killers in More Restrictive Environments wherein they are no danger to themselves or others. But our society saw fit to remove these medical treatment centers instead of making them more effective....which now medications can do. Such a shame on us all!
And so it was better. What you dream and write can become what it might be.....especially for an octogenarian whose octo is greater than mine and Garrison. My fave sci fi book is the one I "borrowed" in my teaching days from our Madison Memorial high school library. The betterment of the world fell upon the discoveries of the monestaries who discovered the square root of 2 which led to the betterment of the world. But it didn't last because society repeated the same errors. I can no longer remember the title yet, my being 85 and somewhat forgetful. The title will come back to me and then I can buy a couple paperbacks from Amazon for my grandkids. Let's not make the same mistakes again, unless we must.
OK, at last the title came back to me via my incredible wife who tossed a few sci-fi high school words into Amazon and "Bingo!" So it returned: "A Canticle for Leibowitz,"by Walter Miller Jr. You Sci-Fi's will love it.....
A classic . Miller was a writers writer. It's one of the books I reread every few years and it's free online. But ya gotta look hard.
Amen that!
Does discovery impede or enable mankind? Or do we continue to rediscover the same sins? I think the monks should destroy it. Who needs radical two? After all, we have infinite, non-repeatable digits, like Pi....which on the face of it is far better.
The cyclical nature of history, with all its faults, appeals. Believing that one step forward is enough, or , all, is contrary to what utopian futurists accept. That we live in purgatory / not the best or worst of times, may be a reality that keeps us sane.
T. S. Eliot: "humankind can not bear very much reality”! True it is....