01-19-2006, 01:10 PM
As I've mentioned already, I've been in this distrubing entropy zone. My car is still in the shop. My computers at work and at home have been on the fritz. My kid has a slight cold. And there was probably a skunk in our garage this morning. And this was just today. There's been more weirdness lately. Anyway, I found some consulation in The Cathedral of Universal Biodiversity where 'life' is mentioned as the profound response to entropy. So true. I think that's my light at the end of the entropy tunnel. If I can jsut focus on life. Unfortunately, I fear the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts.
The Cathedral of Universal Biodiversity is my 2nd favorite cranefly piece so far. The first remains Skullcracker, which I've always interpreted to his ode to living in Ukiah. It's got some real nice heady stuff going on, quite trippy to ponder, a fine example of the non-pharmeceutical psychedelic style of cranefly's - very evocative if you let the implications sink in. I felt the constant sexual theme echoed his unpublished novel; I must confess that the only outstanding memory I have of that work was a shocking oral sex scene between the main protagonist and a rather despicable character described in such shocking detail that it really made me question some of cranefly's dark nefarious past. That overwhelmed any other impression I had of crematids, or whatever it was. But back OT, TCoUB sinks it home with a great ending, exactly what the medium of short stories require. A very good read.
Great work, cranefly, and I'll be working on refocusing on 'life'. I'll be back once the entropy passes.
The Cathedral of Universal Biodiversity is my 2nd favorite cranefly piece so far. The first remains Skullcracker, which I've always interpreted to his ode to living in Ukiah. It's got some real nice heady stuff going on, quite trippy to ponder, a fine example of the non-pharmeceutical psychedelic style of cranefly's - very evocative if you let the implications sink in. I felt the constant sexual theme echoed his unpublished novel; I must confess that the only outstanding memory I have of that work was a shocking oral sex scene between the main protagonist and a rather despicable character described in such shocking detail that it really made me question some of cranefly's dark nefarious past. That overwhelmed any other impression I had of crematids, or whatever it was. But back OT, TCoUB sinks it home with a great ending, exactly what the medium of short stories require. A very good read.
Great work, cranefly, and I'll be working on refocusing on 'life'. I'll be back once the entropy passes.
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