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To: Gauguin who wrote (40041)10/20/1999 1:20:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
What are you doing, writing a science fiction book?

Picking Lather's brain for hottest material, "flat" sphere surfaces... where is this going?

I can imagine a Gaugie sci-fi story, cats and their eccentric behaviors would play a major role. As would wood. And art.



To: Gauguin who wrote (40041)10/20/1999 2:08:00 AM
From: jpmac  Respond to of 71178
 
Black holes schmoles, here's a little ditty for you...


black planet
turned round
once more
the move
the kick
spinning
which way
who could keep up
who'd wanna
vacant eyes
in place of hand
charmed fist
say so
the trick again
somewhere
it is
distant
planet
whirling
no words
say forego
what's to see
black planet
once more

Sometime after writing that, I went to LA on one of my unexplainable trips during which I did unexplainable things. People were either amused or pissed. I was invariably clueless. One friend was quite very pissed. I knocked on her door. When she opened it and saw me, she said, "this is justice", and slammed it in my face. Oooops.

I then spent two days, and 1000 miles, freeway hopping around the city, spending a few hours sleeping in my car on the street I'd lived on while in high school. During those two days I guess I was obsessive, if that's what having one thought is. All that went through my head was, "black planet no more".

A silly, if perhaps noble, thought, since planets always turn black again. It's tough to learn to live with that gravitational, spinning further and nearer the source thing.

Manic depressives = Humanoid planets